Transforming Legacy Weather Applications into Service-Based Decision Support Tools

The emergence of new technologies combined with the increase in the amount of weather data requires a shift in the way weather and environmental data is accessed, stored, processed and managed by weather applications. In addition, many consumers of weather data are moving from data and product based outputs to knowledge based decision support tools and outputs. This “weather awareness” knowledge provides decision makers the required information needed to make decisions important for safe, effective and efficient operations and increased productivity and reduced costs in businesses that are weather-sensitive. Through advancement in areas such as cloud computing, big data analytics, application modernization, services-oriented architecture, weather data capture and processing, and mobile applications, more rapid development and deployment of real-time automated decision support tools for agency and industry missions are now possible.