HR: 18:05h
AN: IN24A-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Efforts to Overcome Difficulties in a Higher Education Meteorology Department Institution
AU: * MOTA, G V
EM: galdinov@ufpa.br
AF: DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA - CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARA, Rua Augusto Correa, No.1 - Campus do Guama, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil
AU: Souza, J R
EM: jricardo@ufpa.br
AF: DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA - CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARA, Rua Augusto Correa, No.1 - Campus do Guama, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil
AU: Ribeiro, J B
EM: jbmr@ufpa.br
AF: DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA - CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARA, Rua Augusto Correa, No.1 - Campus do Guama, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil
AU: Souza, E B
EM: everaldo@ufpa.br
AF: DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA - CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARA, Rua Augusto Correa, No.1 - Campus do Guama, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil
AU: Gomes, N V
EM: nilzele@ufpa.br
AF: DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA - CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARA, Rua Augusto Correa, No.1 - Campus do Guama, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil
AU: Oliveira, R A
EM: romuloj@ufpa.br
AF: DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA - CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARA, Rua Augusto Correa, No.1 - Campus do Guama, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil
AU: Ameida, W G
EM: gambi@cptec.inpe.br
AF: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos Divisao de Operacoes, Rodovia Pres. Dutra, km 4, Cachoeira Paulista, SP 12630-000, Brazil
AU: Chagas, G O
EM: goc@ufprj.br
AF: Dept. de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21949-900, Brazil
AU: Yoksas, T
EM: yoksas@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: Unidata UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States
AU: Spangler, T
EM: spangler@comet.ucar.edu
AF: Unidata UCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States
AU: Cutrim, E
EM: cutrim@wmich.edu
AF: DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA - CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARA, Rua Augusto Correa, No.1 - Campus do Guama, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil
AU: Cutrim, E
EM: cutrim@wmich.edu
AF: Western Michigan University Department of Geography, Rm. 3240 Wood Hall, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, United States
AB: The development of cyberinfrastructure in higher education meteorology departments has become a key requirement to better qualify their students and develop scientific research. The authors present their efforts to overcome low budget, lack of personnel, and other difficulties in the Department of Meteorology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), to participate in international collaborations for sharing hydro-meteorological data, tools and technological systems. Some important steps towards a consolidated integration of the group with the international partnership are discussed, and three are highlighted: (a) the resources from the Unidata's Equipment Award (supported by the National Science Foundation - NSF) and equipment donated in cooperation with the COMET and Meteoforum projects; (b) the interaction of the local team making its project resources available to the community; and (c) the involvement of students with the programs and the cyberinfrastructure available locally. Some positive results can be observed, such as the ability for students of Synoptic Meteorology II class to not only see static meteorological fields on the web, but actually build themselves regional and real-time synoptic products from the data received through Unidata's Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system. Moreover, the UFPA's group intends to improve its infrastructure to expand the access of real-time data and products to other members of the local meteorological community.
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 0599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 3364 Synoptic-scale meteorology
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly