Unidata, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Data Center Description
Unidata consists of data, tools, and community leadership for enhanced
Earth-system education and research.
Participation in the Unidata community allows users (primarily
educators and researchers), to access data and visualization software
to explore earth-system phenomena.
Multidisciplinary from its origins in 1983, the community hosts
participants from atmospheric science, hydrology, oceanography,
climatology, engineering, and environmental science among other
disciplines; though its primary focus is meteorology.
Key to Unidata's success is its active, dynamic community. While the
Unidata Program Center (UPC), based in Boulder, CO, is the community's
virtual and geographic hub, interaction among community members takes
many paths, not all of them radiating from the UPC. The Internet Data
Distribution (IDD), a near real-time data distribution topology, is an
excellent example of community members.
Website: http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/
[Summary provided by UCAR.]
