Predicting and Explaining the Movement of Mesoscale Oceanographic Features Using Clips,

Abstract

The Naval Research Laboratory has developed an oceanographic expert system that describes the evolution of mesoscale features in the Gulf Stream region of the northwest Atlantic Ocean. These features include the Gulf Stream current and the warm and cold core eddies associated with the Gulf Stream. An explanation capability was added to the eddy prediction component of the expert system in order to allow the system to justify the reasoning process it uses to make predictions. The eddy prediction and explanation components of the system have recently been redesigned and translated from OPS83 to C and CLIPS and the new system is called WATE (Where Are Those Eddies). The new design has improved the system's readability, understandability and maintainability and will also allow the system to be incorporated into the Semi-Automated Mesoscale Analysis System which will eventually be embedded into the Navy's Tactical Environmental Support System, Third Generation, TESS(3). (AN)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA296594

Entities

People

  • Liang-chun Chen
  • Matthew Lybanon
  • Susan Bridges

Organizations

  • Mississippi State University

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  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

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  • Abstracts
  • Applied Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Expert Systems
  • Gulf Stream
  • Inference Engines
  • Military Research
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  • Environmental science

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Oceanography.