finnca1@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (01/19/84)
It seems to me (a phrase that is always a copout for the ill-informed; nonetheless, I proceed) that the real payoff in expert systems for weather forecasting would be to capture the knowledge of those pre-computer experts who, with limited data and even fewer dollars, managed to develop their pattern-recognition facilities to the point that they could FEEL what was happening and forecast accordingly. I was privileged to take some meteorology courses from such an oldster many years ago, and it was, alas, my short-sightedness about the computer revolution in meteorology that prevented me from capturing some of his expertise, to buzz a word or two. Surely not ALL of these veterans have retired yet...what a service to science someone would perform if only this experise could be captured before it dies off. ...ucbvax!lbl-csam!ra!daven or whatever is on the header THIS time.