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(Web based) tools for the forecaster
Kees LemckeEGOWS 2008
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• Web based tools– Web portal to existing meteo data– Web based Product Editor– Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server
• 3D-visualization
• State of project ‘Replacement MWS’
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• Web based tools– Web portal to existing meteo data– Web Product Editor– Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server
• 3D-visualization
• State of project ‘Replacement MWS’
Portal to existing meteo
• Based on links to existing URL’s
• Version 1 showed last EGOWS:
– Offline creation of site from database– Main menu with 9 items– Each main menu item divided in 3 sub levels– Pull down menus for sub levels
Portal to existing meteo
• Version 1 showed last EGOWS:
Portal to existing meteo
• September 2007: start introduction
• First: not much response,users stuck with old portal (plain compact html)
• Later on:complaints about too many mouse clicks
Version 2
Portal to existing meteo
• Version 2:
– More main menu items and menu icons– Not more than 2 sub levels– Vertical menu moved to the left side
Portal to existing meteo
Portal to existing meteo
• However, no acceptance of version 2:
– Still too many mouse clicks
– Pull down menu : get rid of it!
– Forecasters asked for ‘Expand & Collapse menu’
Portal to existing meteo
• Version 3:
– Re-use of database– Direct database access in stead of Off-line-generation– Expand/Collapse vertical menu
• Extra:– Several layout options (style sheets)– Search function– 2 options for animation-control– Option for ‘Geographical menu’– Cookies for
• Last used menu• State of expand/collapse• Last used style• Last used animation-control
ACCEPTED !!
Portal to existing meteo
• Short D-tour:
– 3 styles– 2 animation controls– Geographical menu
Horizontal main menu
Default main menu
Vertical main menu
Animation :move mouse over forecast items or Play
Method ‘borrowed’ from FMI
Animation :use buttons
Text in blue: OPERational productText in gray: EXPERimental productAlso visible in main menu
Text in blue: OPERational productText in gray: EXPERimental product
Also visible in main menu
Graphical sub menuNetherlands
Graphical sub menuNorth sea
Graphical sub menuEurope
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• Web based tools– Web portal to existing meteo data– Web Product Editor– Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server
• 3D-visualization
• State of project ‘Replacement MWS’
Web based Product Editor
• Commercial Web based Toolkit: IBM Lotus Forms
• 3-week pilot project in June 2007
• Pilot successful
project started work in progress to be finnished early 2009
Web based Product Editor
• Currently 3 old systems in use:– Aeronautical– Marine– General
• To be replaced by 1 new system
Web based Product Editor
• Forecaster has to – log on– Select a shift dependent ‘TO DO’ list.
• For most tasks (products) a pre-defined form has to be used– Pre-filled fields from model output, editable– Empty fields, must be edit
• Each task has properties:– Type : default, CORrection etc.– State: to do, sent, concept, in use etc.– Possible action: amend, cancel, send etc.
Web based Product Editor
• Example TAF form
Web based Product Editor
• Each form has to be created with theIBM Lotus Form toolkit, API to data sources
– Standard:• spell checker (multiple languages)• drag & drop
– Dedicated:• data within meteorological range check• hyperlink to relevant productgroup in Meteo Portal
List of all weather warnings visible on each page
Content
• Web based tools– Web portal to existing meteo data– Web Product Editor– Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server
• 3D-visualization
• State of project ‘Replacement MWS’
Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server• Goal:
– What can be done at KNMI within a few weeks with• existing meteo data• Magics++• Web Mapping server
• New for KNMI, but similar things are done before by e.g. by Norway with data from DIANA
• Developer: Ernst de Vreede, KNMI
Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server• First results very encouraging !• Performance reasonable
• Cinesat Satelite Data as layer
Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server• Further plans:
– More meteo while zooming in– Filled contouring– Radar– More background maps– Data from XML/BUFR files– Open layers draw facilities– Animation?– Performance test, e.g. quad core system– Magics++ as service permanent active?
Content
• Web based tools– Web portal to existing meteo data– Web Product Editor– Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server
• 3D-visualization
• State of project ‘Replacement MWS’
3D-visualization
• Part of severe weather program• Tool to explore output new meso scale models
(2010)
• Pilot with tool VGEO not successful: – Difficult to arrange input data– Interface not user friendly
3D-visualization
• Next:– Working together with ‘Visualisation and Virtual
Reality’ department of the Technical University of Delft– As soon as both parties agree on the financial chapter
we will start (summer 2008)
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• Web based tools– Web portal to existing meteo data– Web Product Editor– Experiment Magics++ and Web Mapping Server
• 3D-visualization
• State of project ‘Replacement MWS’
State of project ‘Replacement MWS’• Sep 2006
– KNMI and Department of Defense both like to go for a new MWS
• Feb 2007– specification document finished
• Mar 2007– General steering group KNMI/Defense proposes to research the
possibilities for a web based MWS, to be performed by a partner of the Department of Defense.
•Jun 2008…
State of project ‘Replacement MWS’
• Jun 2008 – Restart of project with :
• Brainstorm about future way of working:– Use of 3D by forecaster– Automated first guess– More use of GIS – Etc
• Update specifications
Thank you
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