McClure
- McClure, Queen Anne Hill, Grades 6 -- 8
is our first partner in the
weather station program
- We have installed a research quality,
weather station and a computer automated
real time communication system and
infrastructure
- It was installed by Fred Weller, David
Warren, Neal Johnson and Jim Tillman of
UW, and Rand McDonald, of the McClure
staff.
- University Rotary Community Service
Committee, Karon Fenton, Chair,
provided $2,000 matching funds for the
proposal initiated by Jim Tillman to help
purchase the weather station components
- The rest of the funds are being supplied
by the school and the PTA
- By comparing their data with Coe, UW and
future stations, students will be able to
study the local weather in great detail
at their schools, and perform experiments
- Compare extreme events, such
as the very high peak gust seen at Coe
school on 3 March 1999, with their
observations
- The
network configuration
as of January 1999 is shown in this
diagram. However, the Coe 386 has been
upgraded to one of Group Health 486's
and other machines have been added.
- Rooftop
Installation drawing
-
McClure weather station
component costs
- Courtesy of Rosemary Aragon, University
Rotary and Group Health, we obtained 60
more computers, providing 5 each for 12
classrooms (see below)
- We great-fully acknowledge Fred Weller
commitment and donation of time in
designing, assembling and installing the
McClure-Rotary-Fred Weller weather
station, so named without his knowledge
- Please see the report in the Seattle PI
"Weather station helps middle
school with real-world science"
Other Schools
- Many individuals, educators and others are or have
expressed interest in participating in the program.
Those who are interested in participating, supporting or
helping develop the program, please contact Jim Tillman
at the below address.
Group Health -- Rotary -- School -- University of Washington collaboration
Computers and data distribution
- In response to a request from Jim Tillman, Rosemary
Aragon, University Rotary and Group Health, obtained from
Group Health, six 486 PC's, with 1.6 GB disk, 16 megs
Ram, and Ethernet Network Interface Cards, (NIC)
- The first of these replaced the original 386 at Coe
- The faster processor and greater disk allowed David
Warren to convert from Berkeley Unix to Linux
- These are now running Linux and
Unidata's Internet Data
Distribution software
- "Unidata's Local Data Manager (LDM)
software, designed to move data in
near-real time over the Internet computer
network; as data arrive at various source
locations, they are distributed to relay
sites which, in turn, relay them to
end-users or to other relays until all
data recipients have been served"
- With Linux and Unidata installed, the PC's
operate unattended
- UW is one of the 8 national top tier sites, in
the university -- research consortium
infrastructure that distribute data to over 120
other sites
- Daily, we distribute 8 or more GBytes of weather data
throughout the region covering Alaska,
Washington, Hawaii, California, down through
Arizona from DEC Alpha based workstation
- In addition to the $2,000 University Rotary Service Fund
grant, through Rotary and Group Health, we obtained 90 more systems for use at McClure, Coe
and UW at no cost.
- McClure, is installing five of these machines in each of
12 class rooms
James E. Tillman
Research Professor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Box 351640
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, 98195-1640
mars@atmos.washington.edu
(206) 543-4586
Created 99/09/04
Last update 99/12/24
Linked from http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~mars/
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