The distribution, retrieval, and visualization of real-time Antarctic numerical weather prediction, satellite, and observational data

Over the last several years real-time numerical weather prediction, satellite, and observational data have been distributed across the Antarctic-Internet Data Distribution (Antarctic-IDD) network. The distribution of data through the Antarctic-IDD has proven to be a successful way to easily distribute the real-time data. In the past six months the real-time data has also been included on the Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS) server at Unidata. With the data now available through the THREDDS server, users from around the world can access the real-time Antarctic meteorology data using client applications. One such example of a THREDDS client application is the Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) by Unidata. Users can now access, analyze, and visualize real-time Antarctic numerical model, satellite, and observational data from their local machine without any additional resources than having IDV installed and a network connection.