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. The software can be used with conventional observational, satellite, and grid-point data. McIDAS has been in use and under continual development by the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1972.
The Unidata version of McIDAS (a superset of SSEC McIDAS) has been under development since 1985 and in distribution since 1988. Unidata McIDAS-X is a combination of several packages developed at SSEC, the Unidata Program Center (UPC), and Active State. Unidata McIDAS-X also contains McIDAS applications developed at the UPC, Colorado State University's Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), and other sites.
| Group | Contribution |
|---|---|
| SSEC | McIDAS-X, -XCD, -XRD |
| CIRA, UPC | bugfixes and value added routines some of which are in core, and others of which are in -XRD |
| UPC | variety of applications and supporting infrastructure like the netCDF |
Unidata distributes McIDAS-X - for a variety of platforms running Unix/Linux.
The Unidata Program Center (UPC) distributes McIDAS to Unidata member universities free-of-charge. Sites wishing to join the Unidata community must Register as a Unidata User. Questions about the registration process should be sent to <support@unidata.ucar.edu>.
The Unidata Program Center (UPC) provides full McIDAS support to universities, and to members in good standing in the SSEC operated McIDAS User's Group (MUG).
Full support includes: