An Automated Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)-Based Nowcasting System: Software Description

Abstract

A Web service/Web interface software package has been engineered to address the need for an automated means to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with four-dimensional data assimilation. The user provides a model center point and selects a domain configuration and model start hour. Global Forecast System model data is then downloaded from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction to provide the initial conditions for a model run. In addition, surface and upper-air observations are acquired and are merged with the forecast fields for the first 6 h to provide the most realistic picture of the atmosphere possible. JavaServer Faces toolkit is used to generate the user interfaces in conjunction with HTML5. Glassfish Web server is employed for Web service implementation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589390

Entities

People

  • Brian P. Reen
  • Robert E. Dumais Jr.
  • Stephen F. Kirby

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Assimilation
  • Delphi Method
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directories
  • Four Dimensional
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Grids
  • Html
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • User Interface
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers