This document has embedded pointers to authentic environmental datasets and a powerful tool (the Unidata Integrated Data Viewer, IDV) for interacting with those datasets. In order to use the tool you have to get the Java Webstart system running and preferable on a powerful computer with a lot of memory. But, you only have to install the WebStart program once and you'll be able to access data via the IDV as often as you like after that. Webstart will download the latest version of the IDV the first time you try to access it. After that, it will only download the program when a new version is available.

For instructions on loading WebStart, go to The Unidata WebStart Instruction Page.

Data Interactive Publications

After, installing Webstart come back here and launch the IDV with special datasets by clicking on one of the list items below.

• Publication for the 2005 AMS IIPS Session: July 16 Colorado precipitation event. from Unidata Web Server.
   
• The above document is also available as an official AMS publication in PDF at their site:
  Interactive access, analysis and display of remotely stored datasets from a convective rain event over Colorado
   
• Fall 2004 AGU Publication: Hurricane Charley
   
• Workstation Eta Model Steered by GEMPAK Analysis: January 2005 Ice Storm in Southeast
   
• Real Time Weather

After WebStart is installed on your machine once, you only click on the above links to interact with the datasets using the IDV.

Page last updated April 30, 2003