[mod.ai] request for oceanic or weather references

cugini@NBS-VMS.ARPA ("CUGINI, JOHN") (07/21/86)

Does anyone know of AI or expert systems work being done whose
application domain is oceanography or atmospheric science?
 
I'd appreciate any pointers - please send directly to me.

John Cugini <Cugini@NBS-VMS> 
Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology
National Bureau of Standards
(301) 921-2431


  [The 1985 IEEE conference on Expert Systems in Government had
  a session on Environment and Weather.  There was also a short
  article on prospects of AI in weather forecasting in Aviation
  Week & Space Technology, April 7, 1986, pp. 143-146.  RuleMaster
  has been used in some experimental atmospheric domains; contact
  Radian Corp.  There have also been some efforts at combining the
  two fields -- expert systems to route ships; contact Dr. James
  Mays of Micronautics, Inc., 70 Zoe Street, Suite 200, San Francisco,
  CA 94107, (415) 896-6764.  -- KIL]