apl_aimh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Marty Hall) (05/26/88)
Any pointers on where to look re AI in weather forecasting? I have a couple from AI in Engineering Proceedings, but can't find any others. Thanks! - Marty Hall -- ARPA - hall@bravo.cs.jhu.edu [hopkins-eecs-bravo.arpa] UUCP - ..seismo!umcp-cs!jhunix!apl_aimh | BITNET - apl_aimh@jhunix.bitnet Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MS 100/601, AAI Corp, PO Box 126, Hunt Valley, MD 21030 (301) 683-6455
aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger) (05/27/88)
The Environmental sciences group at NOAA research labs in Boulder has been holding a yearly meeting called AIRES (AI Research in Environmental Science). I don't know if they are having a meeting this year. A point of contact would be William Moninger at the NOAA Labs. I attended the first one. The following is some info on projects that I know of: Synoptic Scale forecasting over Canada. "Knowledge Representation in an Expert Storm Forecasting System" Renee Ellio & Johannes de Haan IJCAI 85 & "Representing Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge in a Knowledge-Based Storm-Forecasting System Renee Ellio & Johannes de Haan Int. J. Man-Machine Studies (1986) 25, 523-547 The survey (very brief!) paper you saw: "Expert Systems in Meteorology" Benoit Faller AI in Engineering proceedings Mentions the Canada work, fog forecasting, & Avalanche prediction Severe thunderstorm forecasting. "Validation of a Weather Forecasting Expert System" Steven Zubrick, Radian Corp. Machine Intelligence Workshop II Loch Lomond, Scotland, March 1985. + "RuleMaster: An Expert System to Aid in Severe Thunderstorm Forecasting" Steven Zubrick & Charles Reise 14th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 29- Nov 1, 1985. Downbust detection from doppler radar. Steve Campbell MIT Lincoln Labs Visibility prediction for airports. Mark Stunder Geomet (Contract with AFGL Hanscomb AFB) Some PROFS related work (ARCHER), William Moninger NOAA ERL. Short term mesoscale forecasting (nowcasting) over the Cape Canaveral area for NASA. James Davis & Robert McArthur ADL Inc. Solar flare forecasting (THEO). Patrick McIntosh NOAA Space Environmental Laboratory, Boulder. Recognizing patterns from weather maps. Bill Havens, University of British Columbia. Downslope snowfall forecasting. George Swetnam Mitre Corp & Richard Bunting UCAR. There are of course other environment-related projects/ideas: flood prediction, forest-fire modeling/prediction (Don Latham at the BLM, Missoula Mont. is a point of contact here.) I am sure I have left projects out. Now the funding picture for weather expert systems in the USA. NOAA's money is mostly for operational tasks. They do conduct research, but mostly in-house (PROFS for instance). NASA is a possible source of funding. ALBM project at DARPA has a weather forecasting component. NEXRAD (joint military and NOAA) doppler radar project may have some money. AWIPS 90 (next weather forecasting system for the 90's NOAA) has a short description of expert system needs. FAA & BLM are also possibilities. Perhaps the best possibility would be to build nowcasting systems in the private sector. My apologies for any errors in my listing. Albert Boulanger aboulanger@bbn.com BBN Labs. Albert Boulanger BBN Labs Inc. ABoulanger@bbn.com (arpa) Phone: (617)873-3891