Recorded presentation6B.1
A community supported, Internet-based surface meteorological network, the Wunderground experience
John J. Celenza, Weather Underground, Inc., San Francisco, CA; and A. B. Cowdin and R. W. Carver
Over several years, we have developed a network of weather station
owned by our user community. The station owners upload their data to
us, which we then archive and display to the general public via web
applications. Without centralized planning, this network has grown to
cover most of the US and is starting to develop a global presence.
Developing an ingest/archival system that can accomodate a large
number of rapidly updating observations has been an interesting
technical challenge. Since the network is composed of heterogenous
hardware sited using different approaches, this poses special issues
for quality control. In this paper we will discuss how we addressed
these challenges and also the lessons learned in working with our
community of station owners.
Session 6B, Internet Applications and Cyberinfrastructure
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Room 122BC
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