Featuring an electronic meteorology wall with real-time weather displays, this computer lab uses interactive graphics software to present a variety of remote sensing and computer model outputs.
The network attached storage (NAS) within the lab has the capacity to store over 20 TBs of archived and real-time weather data using nine Windows and two Linux servers. A rooftop radar and two weather stations enable students to monitor current weather events.
The instrumentation and data storage in this lab support students as they conduct research on notable past storms, climate variability, cloud microphysics and various other meteorological topics. Students regularly utilize the lab while participating in the WxChallenge, an intercollegiate weather forecasting competition.
Equipment
- Rooftop observation deck w/ 360-degree view
- Honeywell IntuVue RDR-7000 aircraft weather radar system
- An automated radiosonde tracking system
- Weather balloon launching facility
- Two automated weather observing stations
- Nine Windows computers
- Two Linux machines for NWP models
- Hand-held weather observing equipment
- Science demo equipment
Associated Projects
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PI Mark Sinclair
- A software package called MADS (Meteorological Analysis and Diagnostic Software) is being developed to provide gridded data (both archived and real-time) and graphical software to produce maps, cross-sections, vertical profiles, time series graphs and statistical (climatological) displays of a large number of basic and derived quantities.
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Dr. Mark SinclairAC1 Building
Prescott, AZ 86301