Instructions for Installing the Applying Mesoscale Tools and Techniques to Predict and Detect Severe Thunderstorm Development Lesson

In order to install this lesson, you will need to create a new directory on your hard drive, download a self extracting, compressed file into this directory, and then run this file in order to extract the data and program files. NWS Users: We strongly encourage you to install these files on a "modern" PDW (300 MHz Pentium II or faster, and at least 64 MB of RAM).

I. To get and install the VISITview lesson files on a Windows system:

1. Create a directory on your computer to hold this lesson.  For example, open a Command Prompt window and type:

        cd \
        mkdir visit
        cd visit
        mkdir mesotools
        cd mesotools

You can also create this new directory using the Windows Explorer  or My Computer.
 

2. Get the self-extracting exe file (it is about 6 MB in size) by aiming your Web browser to

ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/bikos/visit/mesotools_14mar02.exe
OR
ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/visit/mesotools_14mar02.exe
3. Be sure to put this mesotools_14mar02.exe file into the same directory that you created in step 1.

 
4. To extract all the image and program files, just run the mesotools_14mar02.exe file by either:
• opening My Computer  or the Windows Explorer and clicking on the filename mesotools_14mar02.exe
                                            - or -
• opening a Command Prompt window, typing cd \visit\mesotools, and then typing mesotools_14mar02