Inventors:
Bruce L. Rose - Smyrna GA, US
Ian James Miller - Marietta GA, US
William Anthony Cassanova - Marietta GA, US
International Classification:
G01R 13/00
G01R 29/26
G06F 19/00
US Classification:
702 3, 702 5, 7317016, 342 26 R
Abstract:
Weather forecasting systems and methods for deriving and producing very short-term weather forecasts. Weather data and forecast information maybe input to derive very short-term weather forecasts in the 0-6 hour time frame. The system and methods include an expert system employing a hybrid or blending of forecasting approaches, with dynamic or intelligent arbitration of the different numerical, statistical, and human-driven techniques to produce more accurate weather forecasts for very short-term time periods. A calibration or internal verification against ground truth may be run independently with a time lag to produce more accurate future predictions of atmospheric state. The systems and methods may run in modes that produce either high resolution weather forecasts in the short-term period of 0-6 hours or a combination of synthetic, real-time weather observations/conditions and high resolution, short-term weather forecasts.