[CAnet - news] Weather Forecasts Without Boundaries using Grids, P2P and Web services

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[Excerpts from www.GridToday.com article -- BSA]

[ ] M1541298 ) Grid Enables Weather Forecasts Without Boundaries

  
  The results obtained from SIMDAT, a European research and development 
  project, are increasingly in demand from European and international 
  meteorological services and are likely to become acknowledged 
  worldwide. SIMDAT Meteo is working to establish a Virtual Global 
  Information System Centre (VGISC) for the national meteorological 
  services of France, Germany and the United Kingdom based on grid 
  technology to be used within the World Meteorological Organization 
  Information System (WIS) to provide cost-effective and user-friendly 
  services. VGISC offers a unique meteorological database integrating a 
  variety of data and providing secure, reliable and convenient access 
  via the Internet. It is targeted toward operational services and 
  research in the domains of meteorology, hydrology and the environment. 
  
  
   
  The VGISC software developed by the SIMDAT Meteo project partners, led 
  by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, will offer 
  meteorological communities worldwide immediate, secure and convenient 
  access to various data and analysis services, as well as a 
  user-friendly platform for storage of meteorological data. VGISC will 
  thus enable the fast exchange of data for numerical weather forecasts, 
  disaster management and research -- independent of national frontiers 
  and beyond organizational boundaries.
    
  The infrastructure of this new system will be based on a mesh network 
  of peers and meteorological databases. Messages are interchanged using 
  algorithms based on mobile telephony technologies and metadata 
  synchronization on a journalized file system. The grid technology is 
  based on Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration 
  (OGSA-DAI), which is founded on Web service and Web technology 
  concepts. In addition, standard protocols such as Open Archive 
  Initiative (OAI) are used to synchronize and integrate existing 
  archives and databases, as well as to extend interoperability. 
  Furthermore, VGISC will be a test bed for the ISO 19115 metadata 
  standard by handling complex data in real-time. 
  
  The SIMDAT project is Europe’s contribution to the 
  infrastructure technology of the emerging WIS as the World 
  Meteorological Organization (WMO) modernizes and enhances its 
  long-standing Global Telecommunications System (GTS), an international 
  network for exchanging mainly meteorological data and warnings in 
  real-time. In addition, the new system will provide access for all 
  environmental communities worldwide whereas GTS only allows access for 
  the present national weather services of the member states. 
  
  The opportunities for the new VGISC technology are excellent as VGISC 
  is not only of interest within Europe: The national meteorological 
  services of Australia, China, Japan, Korea and the Russian 
  Federation’s National Oceanographic Centre have already deployed 
  the SIMDAT software and are collaborating actively with the European 
  partners. The software deployment is followed by an increasing number 
  of meteorological centers and new meteorological datasets from Asia, 
  Australia, Europe and the United States are steadily being added to 
  the portal. 
  
  

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