McIDAS

McIDAS The Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) is a large, research quality suite of applications used for decoding, analyzing, and displaying meteorological data for research and education.

See the McIDAS package overview
McIDAS Display Examples
McIDAS GOES-East water vapor sector showing geographical extents McIDAS global water vapor composite image (mollweide projection) McIDAS global sea surface temperature - GOES derived image product McIDAS manually digitized radar image
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McIDAS News & Announcements
  • McIDAS-X Addendum v2009n / SSEC McIDAS v2013.1 McIDAS-X Addendum v2009n / SSEC McIDAS v2013.1
    January 22, 2013

    McIDAS-X Addendum v2009n aka SSEC v2013.1 has been released to make changes to the Unidata McIDAS-X/-XCD 2009 distribution.

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  • McIDAS-X Addendum v2009m / SSEC McIDAS v2012.2 McIDAS-X Addendum v2009m / SSEC McIDAS v2012.2
    December 13, 2012

    McIDAS-X Addendum v2009m aka v2012.2 has been released to make changes to the Unidata McIDAS-X/-XCD 2009 distribution.

    This cumulative set of bugfixes and enhancements in Unidata McIDAS-X v2009m includes all SSEC v2012.2 modifications, a new XRD addition, GRAYOVER, some small Unidata MCGUI modifications, and all previous updates to v2009.  Unidata McIDAS-X is available to registered users in a gzip-compressed tar file.

    For more information on the changes included in v2009m, please see the v2009m addendum information.  To download the v2009m distribution, please visit the McIDAS-X download page after logging into the Unidata website.

    Note: Unidata McIDAS is freely  available to U.S. university users.  Access by non-U.S. educational users and members in good standing of the UW/SSEC McIDAS User's Group (MUG) is granted on a case-by-case basis; please send email to support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu for details.  Commercial and governmental users wishing to use McIDAS should contact the MUG directly by sending email to mug@ssec.wisc.edu.

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What is Unidata McIDAS?

Unidata Unidata McIDAS is a combination of several packages developed at SSEC, the Unidata Program Center (UPC), and Active State.

More information about the Unidata McIDAS
Questions About McIDAS?

Questions or comments about McIDAS can be sent to: support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu

McIDAS Documentation & Training

Documentation McIDAS software documentation contains a wealth of useful information. The training information and tutorials used during the McIDAS training workshops are available online as a resource to our community.

McIDAS Documentation
McIDAS Training
Next Training Workshop
  • Training Workshop The next Training Workshop for Unidata software is scheduled to take place in 2012. The specific dates will be posted when they become available.

Questions About McIDAS Documentation & Training?

Questions or comments about McIDAS documentation or training can be sent to: support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu

McIDAS Help & Support

McIDAS-Related Support Requests

Request Support To submit a McIDAS-related support reques, submit an email to one of the following addresses, or use the support request form to compose your queries.

Support Topic Email Address
(add @unidata.ucar.edu)
McIDAS support-mcidas

Complete list of all Unidata support queues

Ways to Get Support

McIDAS Mailing Lists

Mailing Lists McIDAS-related mailing lists of general interest for discussing installation issues and troubleshooting, as well as general software announcments and bug fixes, etc.

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mcidas-x
@unidata.ucar.edu
Low list traffic 		This is a mailing list to facilitate user interactions about subjects of mutual interest to McIDAS users. Typical uses of the list include announcements of new McIDAS releases, bug fixes and down times for the McIDAS mainframe at SSEC; verifying that the McIDAS data stream is running; user requests for unusual, historic data sets, information on hardware configurations and for help programming new McIDAS modules, using McIDAS commands, or importing non-McIDAS data. This list also provide the mechanisms for community activities such as contributing scripts and new routines to the community and even posting job openings requiring familiarity with McIDAS.
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