We have invested a great deal of time and resources to create laboratories for our students, which serve the trimuvirate of acdemic goals: education, research, and outreach. Students in the MDG use these Departmental resources liberally.

WAV Lab

The Weather Analysis and Visualization (WAV) Laboratory is housed in Room 1-120 of the Agriculture Building. Thw WAV Lab is home to ~15 Linux machines, running the AWIPS-II, IDV, LDM, and GEMPAK, as well as WDSS-II, MatLab, Python, and a host of other software packages.

South Farm ACES Facility

The Atmospheric and Climatic Experimentation Station (ACES) is located on the University of Missouri's South Farm, a few miles southeast of Columbia. ACES houses the MU mobile rawinsonde system when it is not deployed in the field. ACES is also home to a Missouri Climate Center mesonet station.