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StormTracker—a web-based tool for working with the automated tracking of thunderstorm clusters
Tom Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Rabin
The StormTracker is a client-server tool to expand continued research on automatically tracking thunderstorm clusters, and presenting realtime results to the user. It combines realtime data from GOES, the RUC-2, radar and lightning and provides time series plots of data pertinent to the track being investigated. We used a Java applet client, backed up by a server that is written using Java and Python, coupled with the VisAD Data Model to make extraction of data at co-located points easy. Data are gathered using a variety of methods, including ADDE and OPeNDAP/THREDDS. .
Session 13, Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology Part II (ROOM 6B)
Wednesday, 14 January 2004, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Room 6B
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