McIDAS Users' Group

The McIDAS Users' Group (MUG) is a subscription-basis membership group that pools its subscription fees to pay for the maintenance and upgrades of McIDAS software and documentation. The MUG has been in existence since 1989 and is administered by the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The MUG is self-supported through annual subscription fees paid by its members to SSEC. The fees provide SSEC with the financial support necessary to provide the following services to MUG members:

• software maintenance (bug fixes) and improvements (new features and enhancements) to the suite of McIDAS software packages
• creation and distribution of updated software packages and documentation
• user assistance through McIDAS User Services and the MUG Inquiry System
• information transfer through this website and other avenues
• information exchange between sites through the mcidas-users email list
• annual MUG Meeting to exchange information and provide feedback for the system's evolution
• maintenance of this McIDAS Website

See the MUG Policy Document for more information about the MUG. You may also email your questions about joining the MUG.

The current MUG member sites are listed below.

• 3TIER Group – Seattle, Washington
• Antarctic Meteorological Research Center – Madison, Wisconsin
• Australian Bureau of Meteorology – Melbourne, Australia
• Aviation Weather Center – Kansas City, Missouri
• The Boeing Company – Seattle, Washington
• Climatological Consulting Corporation – Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
• Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) – Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Environmental Satellite Processing Center – Suitland, Maryland
• European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) – Darmstadt, Germany
• Honeywell Aerospace Electronic Systems – Redmond, Washington
• Hong Kong Observatory – Kowloon, Hong Kong
• ImpactWeather, Inc. – Houston, Texas
• Indian Space Research Organisation – Ahmedabad, India
• Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INM) – Madrid, Spain
• ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation – Tokyo, Japan
• Johnson Space Center Spaceflight Meteorology Group – Houston, Texas
• Kennedy Space Center – Florida
• Kwajalein Atoll - Atmospheric Technology Services Company – Kwajalein Atoll
• Mars Snackfood US, LLC – Hackettstown, New Jersey
• Marshall Space Flight Center – Huntsville, Alabama
• Meteorlogix, LLC – Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Mexico National Water Commission – Mexico D.F., Mexico
• NASA Langley Research Center – Hampton, Virginia
• National Climatic Data Center – Asheville, North Carolina
• National Geo-Information Center – Ulaan-Batar, Mongolia
• National Hurricane Center – Miami, Florida
• National Transportation Safety Board – Washington, DC
• National Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters – Honolulu, Hawaii
• National Weather Service Western Region Headquarters – Salt Lake City, Utah
• Northrop Grumman Information Technology, TASC – Chantilly, Virginia
• Range Weather Operations, Cape Canaveral Air Station – Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
• Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere – Fort Collins, Colorado
• Sea Launch Weather – Tukwila, Washington
• Storm Prediction Center – Norman, Oklahoma
• Unidata Program Center – Boulder, Colorado
• University of Tokyo Volcano Research Center / Earthquake Research Institute – Tokyo, Japan
• University of Wisconsin - Madison, Space Science & Engineering Center – Madison, Wisconsin
• VisionTech, Inc. – Ibaraki, Japan
• Weather Central, Inc. – Madison, Wisconsin
• WTVT Fox 13 Weather – Tampa, Florida