Unidata ATM IEIS Acknowledgements

In particular, thanks are due to:

• NSF Atmospheric Sciences Division for Unidata sponsorship;
• The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center for Unidata McIDAS, for the McIDAS loaner demo machine at NSF, and for their gopher server access and examples;
• The University of Michigan and Merit for the Weather Underground, collaboration on using the Unidata Local Data Manager to create a mirror server for Blue-Skies, and for the use of examples from their IEIS gopher server;
• The University of Illinois for the Weather Machine and for the use of illustrative examples from that IEIS server;
• Purdue University for the Weather Processor (WXP) and for access to and examples from their IEIS gopher server;
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for GEMPAK;
• The National Meteorological Center for GEMPAK maintenance and upgrades;
• Forecast Systems Laboratory for experimental data and resources for the Internet Data Distribution system;
• Michigan State University for access to their WWW weather server and for use of examples from that server;
• Sun Microsystems for donating the Sparc Workstation;
• Alden Electronics, the data provider for the National Weather Service Family of Services products.

In addition, the following sites have volunteered to serve as source and relay nodes in the Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) field test:

• The University of Washington
• North Carolina State University
• The State University of New York at Albany
• The University of Illinois
• The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center
• The University of Michigan and Merit Network
• Arizona University

They are leading the way toward providing the all-important infrastructure that is the foundation of the Unidata systems of the future.