Atmospheric Sciences
There has been a great amount of interest in GLORIAD from the international THORPEX program, established in May 2003 as a ten-year international global atmospheric research and development program. According to Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the US National Weather Service National Centers for Environmental Protection:
The potential for GLORIAD to play an important role in providing critical communication infrastructure for the THORPEX program is very clear. For example, US researchers at universities and government labs (such as NOAA RL, the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, the Environmental Prediction Center) will need to exchange, ...huge amounts of data with colleagues in Japan, China, South Korea, Canada and other countries...
This program involves as key partners, major weather prediction centers in Russia (including the Federal Hydrometereological Service, Europe, the US, China and other countries. It is anticipated that the development of this program may yield significant social economic benefit to the entire world community as it aims to mitigate effects of natural weather-related phenomena by providing much more accurate 1-14 day forecasts. There are many other areas of atmospheric science covered in the enclosed letters of support – including climate change studies, space weather, specialized climate studies of cold and arid locations, etc.
The following point to additional resources about atmospheric sciences applications:
- Investigation of Distributed Enviromental Archives System (IDEAS) (Project in progress) (Atmospheric Science)
- The Investigation of Distributed Environmental Archives System (IDEAS) project, initially named Environmental Scenario Generator (ESG), began in support of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) office. The DoD M&S Master Plan states that the next generation of M&S programs will require the inclusion of an integrated authoritative representation of the natural environment. Here the natural environment includes elements from multiple domains such as space, oceans, terrestrial weather and terrain. The capability exists today to model a highly realistic environment on a wide range of scales. Systems such as the Master Environmental Library (MEL), NVDS and others provide the ability to search for the environmental data sets distributed across the network, but the ability to search for specific “scenarios” (sets of conditions within the archived data) does not exist. (Project in progress) (Atmospheric Science)
- KOREA: Integrated Climate System Modeling
- Large amount of data sharing is necessary in accurate weather and climate predictions. KMA (Korean Metrological Administration) is leading the efforts in Korea.
- Satellite Archive Browse and Retrieval (SABR)(Project in progress) (Atmospheric Science)
- Satellite Archive Browse and Retrieval (SABR) system is designed to provide a unified web access to satellite data sources and products at National Geophysical Data Center NOAA in Boulder, CO. (Project in progress) (Atmospheric Science)
- Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR) (Project in progress) (Atmospheric Science)
- The Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR) is a distributed network of synchronous databases and application servers designed to allow a space weather modeling and prediction customer or application to intelligently access and manage historical space physics data for integration with virtual environment models and real-time space weather forecasts..
Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR) (Project in progress) (Atmospheric Science)
- THORpex (Project in progress)(Atmospheric Science)
- A Global Atmospheric Research Programme THORPEX is a ten-year international research
programme, under the auspices of the Commission of the Atmospheric Science, and
its World Weather Research Programme (WWRP). The purpose of THORPEX is to accelerate
improvements in short-range (up to 3 days), medium-range (3 to 7 days) and extended-range
(week-two) weather predictions and the social value of advanced forecast products.
THORPEX would examine global-to-regional influences on the predictability of high-impact
weather and establish the potential to produce significant statistically-verifiable improvements
in forecasts of those time scales (Project in progress)(Atmospheric Science)
