Apparatus and method for providing environmental predictive indicators to emergency response managers
First Claim
1. A system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising:
- a network meteorological weather monitoring stations having a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network to a central server where each of said plurality of monitoring stations operable to transmit sensor data to said central server and where each of said plurality of monitoring stations are geographically place based on a type of weather threat parameter, a type of asset parameter, and a local condition parameter thereby forming a local Mesonet;
a computing system communicably linked to said central server over said wide are network and having an initialization module adapted for initializing the boundary conditions for a an earth atmosphere sciences (EAS) model domain, where said initialization module has a pre-processing sub-module including a Geo-Grid function operable to extract data from a geographic database to define the model domain lower boundary condition, an UnGrib function operable to extract data imported from national weather service to define lateral boundary conditions, and a Metgrid function operable to transform data from the UnGrib and the Geo-Grid for the EAS model domain;
said computing system further comprising an ingestion module adapted for ingesting initial EAS model domain boundary conditions and combining with Local Mesonet to get Weather Research Forecasting model by importing Local Mesonet Data from the Local Mesonet and transformed by an ObsGrid sampling function into uniform data grid and storing into MetGrid;
said computing system further comprising a parameterization scheme module adapted for selecting and tuning a parameterization scheme based at least partially on Local Mesonet Data; and
said computing system further comprising a Prediction module adapted for generating weather prediction data based on the Weather Research Forecasting model and outputting the weather prediction data to a user interface adapted for operator viewing.
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Abstract
A method of predicting weather-exacerbated threats, said method comprising inputting localized weather measurement data into a weather threat prediction system; predicting future localized weather conditions based on said localized weather measurement data combined with modeling from National Weather Service Data; inputting natural environment and infrastructure data into said weather threat prediction system; correlating said infrastructure data with said predicted future localized weather conditions; and determining a threat level index over a region, a threat level indicating an area having a certain probabilistic likelihood of being harmed by said future weather conditions.
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1. A system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising:
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a network meteorological weather monitoring stations having a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network to a central server where each of said plurality of monitoring stations operable to transmit sensor data to said central server and where each of said plurality of monitoring stations are geographically place based on a type of weather threat parameter, a type of asset parameter, and a local condition parameter thereby forming a local Mesonet; a computing system communicably linked to said central server over said wide are network and having an initialization module adapted for initializing the boundary conditions for a an earth atmosphere sciences (EAS) model domain, where said initialization module has a pre-processing sub-module including a Geo-Grid function operable to extract data from a geographic database to define the model domain lower boundary condition, an UnGrib function operable to extract data imported from national weather service to define lateral boundary conditions, and a Metgrid function operable to transform data from the UnGrib and the Geo-Grid for the EAS model domain; said computing system further comprising an ingestion module adapted for ingesting initial EAS model domain boundary conditions and combining with Local Mesonet to get Weather Research Forecasting model by importing Local Mesonet Data from the Local Mesonet and transformed by an ObsGrid sampling function into uniform data grid and storing into MetGrid; said computing system further comprising a parameterization scheme module adapted for selecting and tuning a parameterization scheme based at least partially on Local Mesonet Data; and said computing system further comprising a Prediction module adapted for generating weather prediction data based on the Weather Research Forecasting model and outputting the weather prediction data to a user interface adapted for operator viewing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for predicting weather-related threats, comprising the steps of:
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providing a network meteorological weather monitoring stations by placing plurality of monitoring stations geographically based on a type of weather threat parameter, a type of asset parameter, and a local condition parameter thereby forming a local Mesonet and communicably linking said plurality of monitoring stations over a wide area network to a central server; transmitting sensor data from each of said plurality of monitoring stations to said central server and where each of said; initializing the boundary conditions for a an earth atmosphere sciences (EAS) model domain using a computing system having an initialization module adapted for initializing the boundary conditions for the EAS model domain; pre-processing medium scale forecast data with a pre-processing sub-module of said initialization module including a Geo-Grid function and an UnGrib function and a Metgrid function; extracting data from a geographic database using the Geo-Grid function to define the model domain lower boundary condition; extracting data imported from national weather service using the UnGrib function to define lateral boundary conditions; transforming data from the UnGrib and the Geo-Grid for the EAS model domain using the Metgrid function; Ingesting initial EAS model domain boundary conditions and combining with Local Mesonet to get Weather Research Forecasting model using the ingestion module of the computing system and importing Local Mesonet Data from the Local Mesonet and transformed by an ObsGrid sampling function into uniform data grid and storing into MetGrid; selecting and tuning a parameterization scheme based at least partially on Local Mesonet Data using the parameterization scheme module of the computing system; and generating weather prediction data based on the Weather Research Forecasting model and outputting the weather prediction data to a user interface adapted for operator viewing using a Prediction module of the computing system. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising:
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an electrical utility infrastructure having a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) network adapted for monitoring and reporting infrastructure status including a plurality of substations dispersed throughout a region serviced by the electrical utility infrastructure, where said substations including a transceiver module operable to receive and transmit infrastructure status transmissions, and where said SCADA network includes a central server communicably linked to said plurality of substations and adapted to receive and process infrastructure status transmissions transmitted from the plurality of substations; a local Mesonet including a plurality of weather monitoring stations dispersed throughout the region serviced by the electrical utility infrastructure, where each weather monitoring station including weather condition sensors and transmitters adapted to transmit to the SCADA network data representative of the weather conditions sensed by the weather condition sensors; said central server communicably linked to a wide area network and adapted to transmit said data representative of the weather conditions over said wide area network; an electronic converter module operable to receive and convert the data representative of the weather conditions and transmitted by the plurality of weather monitoring stations into a format and protocol that can be processed and transmitted by the SCADA network; and an earth atmosphere sciences (EAS) computing system communicably linked to said wide area network and adapted to receive data representative of the weather conditions as transmitted by the central server and adapted to present said data representative of the weather conditions to a user interface for user viewing.
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