Design and development of a Java-based graphical user interface to monitor/control a meteorological real-time forecasting system

Gómez, Igor; Estrela, María José

doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.005

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“…Severe weather events in the Valencia Region has been studied at the CEAM (Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Mediterráneo; Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies) Foundation, using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Besides, RAMS has also been used in the CEAM Foundation within different research projects (Gómez et al, 2010). As a result, the operational forecasting system running over the Valencia Region is based on this mesoscale meteorological model.…”

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“…The sensitivity of the Valencia Region to climate hazards encouraged us to design and develop a meteorological real-time forecasting system for this area (Gómez et al, 2010). Severe weather events in the Valencia Region has been studied at the CEAM (Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Mediterráneo; Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies) Foundation, using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS).…”

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“…This area exhibits a relevant interest from a meteorological point of view, as it is particularly sensitive to certain severe weather events. Among them, we must highlight episodes of forest fires (Gómez-Tejedor et al, 1999) and heat waves (Miró et al, 2006;Gómez et al, 2010;Gómez et al, 2013) in the summer. In addition, during the late summer and autumn, episodes of torrential rains are also common over this region (Millán et al, 1995;Estrela et al, 2002;Millán et al, 2005).…”

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Moreover, due to the physical complexity of the area of study, the model presents different degree of accuracy between coastal and inland stations. Precipitation has also been verified by means of yes/no contingency tables as well as scatter plots. These tables have been built using 4 specific thresholds that have permitted to compute some categorical statistics. From the results found, it is shown that the precipitation forecast in the area of study is in general over-predicted, but with marked differences between the seasons of the year. Finally, dividing the available data by season of the year, has permitted us to analyse differences in the observed patterns for the magnitudes mentioned above. These results have been used to better understand the behaviour of the RAMS model within the Valencia Region.

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Real-time weather forecasting in the Western Mediterranean Basin: An application of the RAMS model

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“…1) is especially sensitive to certain meteorological hazards from severe weather phenomena, due to its climatic characteristics and geographic situation (Gómez-Tejedor et al, 1999;Pastor et al 2001;Pastor et al, 2010;Estrela et al, 2007;Estrela et al, 2008;Gómez et al 2007;Gómez et al, 2009a;Gómez et al, 2009b;Gómez et al, 2010;Gómez et al, 2011;Gómez et al, 2012).…”

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“…Increasing concern for public health in relation to extreme maximum and minimum temperature episodes in summer has motivated the implementation of an operational meteorological, forecast and warning system for high temperatures in the Valencia Region within the collective agreement between the General Direction of Public Health within the Regional Government of Valencia and the Meteorology and Climatology Programme at the CEAM (Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Mediterráneo) Foundation Estrela et al, 2008). This tool has been added to the meteorological real-time forecasting system running at the CEAM Foundation Gómez et al, 2010), which is based on the Regional Atmospheric and Modeling System (RAMS) (Pielke et al, 2002;Cotton et al, 2003). This meteorological forecast and warning system uses the RAMS daily maximum and minimum temperatures forecasted by the model to detect high-temperature hazard levels for the thermo-climatic areas in which the Valencia Region has been divided (Miró et al, 2006;Estrela et al, 2007;Estrela et al, 2008).…”

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Operational forecasting of daily summer maximum and minimum temperatures in the Valencia Region

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ABSTRACT.Extreme temperature events have a great impact on human society. Thus, knowledge of summer temperatures can be very useful both for the general public and for organisations whose workers operate in the open. An accurate forecasting of summer maximum and minimum temperatures could help to predict heat-wave conditions and permit the implementation of strategies aimed at minimizing the negative effects that high temperatures have on human health. The objective of this work is to evaluate the skill of the RAMS model in determining daily summer maximum and minimum temperatures in the Valencia Region. For this, we have used the real-time configuration of this model currently running at the CEAM Foundation. This operational system is run twice a day, and both runs have a three-days forecast range. To carry out the verification of the model in this work, the information generated by the system has been broken into individual simulation days for a specific daily run of the model. Moreover, we have analysed the summer forecast period agreement between observed and simulated maximum temperatures, with RMSE in general near 2 ºC both for coastal and inland stations. For this parameter, the model shows a negative bias around -1.5 ºC in the coast while the opposite trend is observed inland. In addition, RAMS also shows good results in forecasting minimum temperatures for coastal locations, with bias lower than 1 ºC and RMSE below 2 ºC. However, the model presents some difficulties for this parameter inland, where bias higher than 3 ºC and RMSE of about 4 ºC have been found. Besides, there is little difference in both temperatures forecasted within the two daily RAMS cycles and that RAMS is very stable in maintaining the forecast performance at least for three forecast days.

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Verification of the RAMS-based operational weather forecast system in the Valencia Region: a seasonal comparison

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Design and development of a Java-based graphical user interface to monitor/control a meteorological real-time forecasting system

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Real-time weather forecasting in the Western Mediterranean Basin: An application of the RAMS model

Real-time weather forecasting in the Western Mediterranean Basin: An application of the RAMS model

Operational forecasting of daily summer maximum and minimum temperatures in the Valencia Region

Verification of the RAMS-based operational weather forecast system in the Valencia Region: a seasonal comparison

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