Whats new with Deep Thunder?
In order to evaluate these ideas, we created an initial operational version of Deep Thunder for the New York City area. We put together from scratch a modest weather laboratory in Yorktown, which we have used to support our continuing development and to enable us to run Deep Thunder operationally. Our lab consists of a NOAAport satellite receiver (which provides us with raw data from the National Weather Service), a System p Cluster 1600 supercomputer (five 4-way and one 2-way Power4 nodes), a small RS/6000 SP supercomputer (eleven 4-way and one 8-way Power3 nodes) and nine 3D graphics workstations (IBM Intellistations). We used this facility to build a prototype system for creating high-resolution forecasts for the New York area. We generate “nested” 24-hour forecasts at 16, 4, and 1 km resolution (areas of 976 x 976, 244 x 244, and 61 x 61 km in size, respectively) centered over New York City and tied to multi-resolution visualizations.
To evaluate these ideas, we created an initial operational version of Deep Thunder for the New York City area. To do that we have put together from scratch a modest weather laboratory in Yorktown, which we have used to support our continuing development and enable us to run Deep Thunder operationally. In particular, our lab consists of a NOAAport satellite receiver (which provides us raw data from the National Weather Service), a System p Cluster 1600 supercomputer (five 4-way and one 2-way Power4 nodes), a small RS/6000 SP supercomputer (eleven 4-way and one 8-way Power3 nodes) and nine 3D graphics workstations (IBM Intellistations). We used this facility to build an initial prototype system to create high-resolution forecasts for the New York area. In particular, we generate “nested” 24-hour forecasts at 16, 4 and 1 km resolution (areas of 976×976, 244×244 and 61×61 km in size, respectively) centered over New York City tied to multi-resolution visualizations.
In order to evaluate these ideas, we created an initial operational version of Deep Thunder for the New York City area. We put together from scratch a modest weather laboratory in Yorktown, which we have used to support our continuing development and to enable us to run Deep Thunder operationally. Our lab consists of a NOAAport satellite receiver (which provides us with raw data from the National Weather Service), a System p Cluster 1600 supercomputer (five 4-way and one 2-way Power4 nodes), a small RS/6000 SP supercomputer (eleven 4-way and one 8-way Power3 nodes) and nine 3D graphics workstations (IBM Intellistations). We used this facility to build a prototype system for creating high-resolution forecasts for the New York area. We generate “nested” 24-hour forecasts at 16, 4, and 1 km resolution (areas of 976 x 976, 244 x 244, and 61 x 61 km in size, respectively) centered over New York City and tied to multi-resolution visualizations. Fixed sets of qualitative products (three-dimen
