Both, the current level of air pollution studies and social needs in the country, are in a stage mature enough for creating Bulgarian Chemical Weather Forecasting and Information System. For the purpose, a project is funded by the National Scientific Fund aiming at designing and setting up such a system able to provide timely, informative and reliable forecast products tailored to the needs of ...

The use of state-of-the-art hyperspectral sensors--such as the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) on NASA’s polar-orbiting Aqua satellite--to retrieve high vertical resolution thermodynamic profiles and their subsequent assimilation into forecast models holds promise in improving weather predictions. This improved vertical resolution over previous capabilities results from the use of thousands...

A continuous GPS array is a very useful tool for monitoring and modeling crustal activity. GPS observation has revealed various unknown aspects of tectonic deformation in Japan and other locations. Quasi-real time data acquisition and dense spatial coverage enable incorporation of GPS data into simulation models for crustal activity forecast, which is similar to data assimilation in weather for...

The accuracy of numerical weather forecasts is crucial in many engineering applications, especially for the management of renewable energy. In this paper, we give a short overview of methods used to improve local weather forecast. Then we propose a new state space model in order to correct bias and phase errors in numerical wind forecasts. We present some results for real life data.

Temperature forecasting and rain forecasting in today's environment is playing a major role in many fields like transportation, tour planning and agriculture. The purpose of this paper is to provide a real time forecasting to the user according to their current position and requirement. The simplest method of forecasting the weather, persistence, relies upon today's conditions to forecast the c...

For the local TV presentation of weather forecast data it is important to have high-quality and fast visualisation of clouds. In this paper we present surface-based methods for the high performance visualisation of clouds from data produced by a routine meteorological weather simulation. Isosurfaces, which are originally too coarse because of the data grid resolution are refined and deformed. T...

Citation: Rontu L, Wastl C and Niemelä S (2016) Influence of the Details of Topography on Weather Forecast – Evaluation of HARMONIE Experiments in the Sochi Olympics Domain over the Caucasian Mountains. Front. Earth Sci. 4:13. doi: 10.3389/feart.2016.00013 Influence of the Details of Topography on Weather Forecast – Evaluation of HARMONIE Experiments in the Sochi Olympics Domain over the Caucas...

During peak periods of operation, the National Airspace System (NAS) suffers from limited resources. Traffic Flow Management (TFM) is responsible for adjusting traffic flow demand to meet the available capacity. In the case of airports, TFM uses the Ground Delay Program (GDP) to allocate the constrained runway resources. This paper describes a tool for forecasting the likelihood of a GDP at an ...