Transforming the sensing and numerical prediction of high-impact local weather through dynamic adaptation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1890, 2009, Pages 885-904

  Droegemeier, Kelvin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberinfrastructure; Data assimilation; Dynamically adaptive; Mesoscale weather; On demand; Service oriented architecture

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; RAIN; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEB SERVICES;

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE; MESOSCALE WEATHER; ON-DEMAND; SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; METEOROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNET; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; WEATHER;

EID: 60349111095     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0211     Document Type: Article

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