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- From: wood@cs.vu.nl (Mark D. Wood)
- Subject: Research in applying distributed systems to meteorology problems
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- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:25:10 GMT
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- I'm a researcher in distributed systems, looking for problems... (A
- large part of research :) )
-
- A considerable amount of research has been devoted to developing
- computer-based climate models, methods for weather prediction, etc.
- These tasks are typically computationally intensive. and the research
- questions here lie primarily in the fields of numerical analysis and
- algorithms.
-
- It would seem, however, that techniques from distributed systems could
- also be applied. Perhaps the tasks are all fairly simple and
- straightforward; it is "just" a question of remote sensing, gathering
- information from remote sensors, and then disseminating as necessary.
- However I'd expect that there are some thorny issues here, which could
- be best addressed by applying techniques from the distributed systems
- community.
-
- The only work I am familiar with along these lines is the work on
- StormCast by folks at the University of Tromsoe in Norway. I would be
- curious to hear of other, related projects AND also of needs that
- people in the climatology/meteorology field have which could be
- appropriately dealt with by researchers in distributed systems.
-
- Postings or direct e-mail are fine. If it seems appropriate, I can
- post a summary.
-
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