Dr. Cassandra G. Fesen				June 24, 1997
  W B Hanson Center for Space Sciences
  University of Texas at Dallas
  POB 830688 MS FO22
  Richardson, TX 75083-0688

  Dear Cassandra,

  I would be pleased to participate in your proposed project to NSF's
  POWRE program on "Modeling the Upper Atmosphere: Educational
  Outreach".  

  The post-model processors that I have developed to access and display
  the NCAR Thermospheric General Circulation Model simulations are robust 
  and able to be modified for other purposes. I have written codes in
  IDL (Research Systems Inc.), and in fortran (f77 and f90). The IDL code
  utilizes a widget toolkit to drive a GUI. The fortran codes use NCAR
  graphics. Your students are welcome to read and use this source code
  as examples of applications software and visualization of model output.

  This would be a good starting point for developing similar processors 
  at UTD and I would be happy to consult with your group (within reasonable
  time constraints) on how best to implement similiar codes for other 
  purposes. For the record, I will not require any funding for my help in 
  this project.


  Sincerely,






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