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Acknowledgements

This work was initiated by the author under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Contract No. 68-W0-0043-462 between US EPA and Computer Sciences Corporation, and continued by the author at MCNC/NCSC Environmental Programs, also under cooperative agreement with US EPA. The author would like to thank EPA's Atmospheric Research and Environmental Assessment Laboratory (whose Regional Oxidant Model utility and I/O library provided a fine example of how modeling could be aided by the use of a fine selective direct-access library, and which explored many of the pitfalls in such a library so that Models-3 and EDSS could avoid them) for supporting this work, and the following people who made valuable contributions to and suggestions for its development:

The author would also like to thank the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and its technology-transfer arm Unidata, on top of whose netCDF interface for data access the I/O API was built, and without which it would have been much more difficult to construct an easy-to-use, modeler-oriented machine-independent selective direct access interface to air-quality-oriented data, as well as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), whose mosaic which can be used to view this html document.

Carlie J. Coats, Jr. coats@emc.mcnc.org
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