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FX-net Application System, one of the sub-systems of WINS (Weather
Integration Nowcasting System), has been under development in
recent years by the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan. This system
takes advantage of the flourishing networking technologies to
provide inexpensive, quick meteorological information via the
Internet to academia and governmental organizations such as
administration and/or emergency management units.
FX-net
Project is one of the many collaborative efforts between the
Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan, and the Forecasting System
Laboratory at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA/FSL). FX-net has a three-tier architecture: a Java-based
client-side inquiry system; a query-processing web server,
which will be switched to a pure Java-based server later;
and a data server, which is implemented with C++ to enhance
the efficiency of I/O and data processing. Through this user-friendly
menu interface, users will have easy access to weather information.
These include satellite images, radar images, numerical weather
prediction charts from weather bureaus around the world, conventional
surface and upper-air observation plots, high-density surface,
meteorological rain gauge, lightning observation plots, and
the combined interactive figures of the above. Functions for
maneuvering displays include range control, overlapped figure
and image display, animated display, and zoom-in and zoom-out
display. This system is still in its embryonic stage. It will
be completed within three years.
Reported by: Dr. Jerry Chang, National Center for High-performance
Computing
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