Unidata Program


            _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
                 UCAR/Unidata Program Center
                 P.O. Box 3000
                 Boulder, CO 80307

            _E_m_a_i_l: support@unidata.ucar.edu

            _P_h_o_n_e: (303) 497-8644


            _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n

            Unidata is a national program to help  universities  acquire
            weather  data  and  to  analyze  and  display those data for
            teaching  and  research.   The  program  is  funded  by  the
            National  Science  Foundation  and managed by the University
            Corporation for Atmospheric Research.  Unidata negotiates  a
            group  contract  with a commercial data-broadcasting firm so
            that universities may receive weather data  at  a  discount.
            Unidata  also  develops and distributes software for captur-
            ing,  analyzing,  and   displaying   those   data   locally.
            Unidata-developed  software  includes the Unidata Local Data
            Manager (LDM), which captures real-time weather data from  a
            satellite  broadcast,  and  netCDF,  a  network-transparent,
            architecture-independent form for  storing  scientifc  data.
            Unidata also distributes applications software developed and
            licensed  by  universities,  such  as  Purdue   University's
            Weather  Processor  (WXP)  and the University of Wisconsin's
            McIDAS-OS/2.

            _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s:

            Unidata is connected via a LAN to NCAR, an  NSFNET  backbone
            site.    UNIX   users  can  access  a  compressed  tar  file
            (netcdf.tar.Z in  directory  pub)  via  anonymous  ftp  from
            unidata.ucar.edu.   VMS  users  can  get  a  backup  saveset
            (netcdf.bck  in  directory  vms)  via  anonymous  ftp.fP  to
            laurel.ucar.edu.

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            The information in this section is provided  in  accor-
            dance  with the copyright notice appearing at the front
            of this guide.




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            _U_s_e/_R_e_s_t_r_i_c_t_i_o_n_s:

            The Unidata netCDF software is freely available.  All  other
            Unidata  software is restricted to universities and requires
            licenses.














































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