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IDD-Brazil: Improving Meteorological data sharing and research
Guilherme Oliveira Chagas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The IDD-Brazil constitutes of an expansion of the Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD), a joint effort among the Laboratório de Prognósticos em Mesoescala - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (LPM/UFRJ), Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC, a division of INPE) and the Unidata Program Center, linking several Brazilian Institutions in a network for near real-time data sharing. This international cooperation changed drastically the way that researchers use data, providing access to broaden and more detailed information, available freely for the participants of this network.
The UFRJ has been working closely with CPTEC and Unidata, porting new datasets to this system, such as the output from CPTEC's ETA 40km regional model and Satellite Imagery from GOES, and LPM's MM5 and WRF 20km mesoscale models. The dissemination of observational data at CPTEC, in conjunction with Unidata's powerful visualization softwares, greatly enhances the coverage of reporting stations in Brazil, thus creating many new possibilities for research, such as the ongoing projects into data ingestion for numerical models and forecast verification.
Constant outreach efforts driven by Unidata, UFRJ and CPTEC are increasing the number of participants in IDD-Brazil, setting new paths for research, empowering Meteorology nationwide, and creating new collaborations throughout the Americas.
Poster Session 1, All Submissions
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
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