A service-oriented architecture for ensemble flood forecast from numerical weather prediction

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 527, Issue , 2015, Pages 933-942

  Shi, Haiyun ^a,b   Li, Tiejian ^a   Liu, Ronghua ^c   Chen, Ji ^b   Li, Jiaye ^a   Zhang, Ang ^a   Wang, Guangqian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Ensemble flood forecast; Numerical weather prediction; Service oriented architecture; Web service

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISASTER PREVENTION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FORECASTING; INFORMATION SERVICES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WATERSHEDS; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

CONTROL REQUIREMENTS; FLOOD FORECAST; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INTERACTIVE WEB SERVICES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; REAL-TIME UPDATES; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; WARNING INFORMATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCHITECTURE; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; REAL TIME; RIVER BASIN; SOCIAL NETWORK; WEATHER FORECASTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84931275573     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.05.056     Document Type: Article

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