Apparatus and method for providing environmental predictive indicators to emergency response managers
First Claim
1. A computer system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising:
- a computer system having a memory and one or more processors;
one or more processor executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more programs include,instructions for data ingesting and combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local mesonet thereby creating real time a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions;
quality control processing the data from the local mesonet by determining if data is within predetermined criteria including one or more of, sensor performance, expected data content, expected data range, temporal data continuity, spatial data consistency and data adjustments for infrastructure; and
instructions for deriving meteorological fields using current and predicted meteorological fields including one or more of divergence, vorticity, moisture advection, wind velocity shear, wind velocity deformation, and gradient wind strength, thereby maximizing temporal and spatial resolution.
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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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41 Claims
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1. A computer system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising:
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a computer system having a memory and one or more processors; one or more processor executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more programs include, instructions for data ingesting and combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local mesonet thereby creating real time a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions; quality control processing the data from the local mesonet by determining if data is within predetermined criteria including one or more of, sensor performance, expected data content, expected data range, temporal data continuity, spatial data consistency and data adjustments for infrastructure; and instructions for deriving meteorological fields using current and predicted meteorological fields including one or more of divergence, vorticity, moisture advection, wind velocity shear, wind velocity deformation, and gradient wind strength, thereby maximizing temporal and spatial resolution. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising:
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a computer system having a memory and one or more processors; one or more processor executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more programs include, instructions for initializing lateral boundary conditions based on large scale numerical weather forecast data and lower boundary conditions based on climatological geographic data including one or more of seasonal variations in vegetation and soil thereby implementing an earth and atmosphere model domain; instructions for transforming into a uniform data grid sensor data real time from a local mesonet having a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network and geographically and strategically placed based on infrastructure data and natural environmental and man-made regional characteristic data and based on achieving high spatial resolution with respect to the varying spacing of infrastructure of concern within a given region; and instructions for combining the earth and atmosphere model domain boundary conditions and the sensor data collected from the local mesonet thereby implementing a forecasting model. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer implemented method for providing environmentally predictive indicators and related threats, comprising the steps of:
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assembling at the computer system meteorological sensor data from a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network and placed geographically based on infrastructure data and natural environmental and man-made regional characteristic data, time averaging the meteorological sensor data over a one minute period, and transmitting the aggregate meteorological sensor data in a data package to a central server having program instructions where when said program instructions are executed are adapted to perform the steps of, initializing lateral boundary conditions based on large scale numerical weather forecast data and lower boundary conditions based on climatological geographic data for an earth and atmosphere model domain, and combining model domain boundary conditions and sensor data transformed into a uniform data grid for implementing a forecasting model. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer implemented method, comprising the steps of:
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combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local mesonet thereby creating a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions; quality control processing the data from the local mesonet by determining if data is within predetermined criteria including one or more of, sensor performance, expected data content, expected data range, temporal data continuity, spatial data consistency and data adjustments for infrastructure; and deriving meteorological fields using current and predicted kinematic and dynamic meteorological fields including one or more of divergence, vorticity, moisture advection, wind velocity shear, wind velocity deformation, and gradient wind strength, thereby maximizing temporal and spatial resolution. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer implemented method, comprising the steps of:
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polling a central server at a uniform time interval for meteorological sensor data; receiving at the computer system the meteorological sensor data from a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network and placed geographically based on infrastructure data and natural environmental and man-made regional characteristic data transmitted to the central server and said computer system having program instructions where when said program instructions are executed perform the steps of, initializing real time lateral boundary conditions based on large scale numerical weather forecast data and lower boundary conditions based on climatological geographic data for an earth and atmosphere model domain, and incorporating data from the plurality of monitoring stations to improve real time lateral and lower boundary conditions of a forecasting model and combining model domain boundary conditions and sensor data transformed into a uniform data grid for implementing the forecasting model. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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29. A computer implemented method, comprising the steps of:
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initializing at a computer lateral boundary conditions based on large scale numerical weather forecast data and lower boundary conditions based on climatological geographic data thereby implementing an earth and atmosphere model domain; transforming into a uniform data grid sensor data from a local mesonet having a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network and placed geographically based on infrastructure data and natural environmental and man-made regional characteristic data; and combining the earth and atmosphere model domain boundary conditions and the sensor data collected from the local mesonet thereby implementing a forecasting model, and combining static infrastructure data with the climatological geographic data and the meteorological sensor data to determine a threat index. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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31. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for use in conjunction with a computer system associated with a local mesonet, the computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by the computer system, the one or more programs comprising:
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instructions for data ingesting and combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local mesonet thereby creating real time a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions; quality control processing the data from the local mesonet by determining if data is within predetermined criteria including one or more of, sensor performance, expected data content, expected data range, temporal data continuity, spatial data consistency and data adjustments for infrastructure; and instructions for deriving meteorological fields using current and predicted meteorological fields including one or more of divergence, vorticity, moisture advection, wind velocity shear, wind velocity deformation, and gradient wind strength, thereby maximizing temporal and spatial resolution. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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34. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for use in conjunction with a computer system associated with a local mesonet, the computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by the computer system, the one or more programs comprising:
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instructions for initializing lateral boundary conditions based on large scale numerical weather forecast data and lower boundary conditions based on climatological geographic data including one or more of seasonal variations in vegetation and soil thereby implementing an earth and atmosphere model domain; instructions for transforming into a uniform data grid sensor data real time from a local mesonet having a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network and geographically and strategically placed based on infrastructure data and natural environmental and man-made regional characteristic data and based on achieving high spatial resolution with respect to the varying spacing of infrastructure of concern within a given region; and instructions for combining the earth and atmosphere model domain boundary conditions and the sensor data collected from the local mesonet thereby implementing a forecasting model. - View Dependent Claims (35)
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36. 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 locally spaced apart 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 local weather threat parameter, a type of local asset parameter, and a local condition parameter thereby forming a local Mesonet; said central server having a memory and one or more processors, where one or more processor having executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more programs include instructions for transmitting sensor data and other weather data to a computing system communicably linked to said central server over said wide area network and having an initialization module adapted for initializing the boundary conditions for a model domain. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38)
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39. A system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising:
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a computing system communicably linked to a central server over a wide area network; where said computing system having a memory and one or more processors, where one or more processor having executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors; where the one or more programs include instructions for, receiving local mesonet data gathered at the central server from a plurality of monitoring stations that are geographically place based on a type of local weather threat parameter, a type of local asset parameter, and a local condition parameter thereby forming a local Mesonet; and said computing system having an initialization module adapted for initializing the boundary conditions for a 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. - View Dependent Claims (40)
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41. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for use in conjunction with a computer system associated with a local mesonet, the computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by the computer system, the one or more programs comprising:
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polling a central server at a uniform time interval for meteorological sensor data; receiving at a computer system the meteorological sensor data from a plurality of monitoring stations communicably linked over a wide area network and placed geographically based on infrastructure data and natural environmental and man-made regional characteristic data transmitted to the central server and said computer system having program instructions where when said program instructions are executed perform the steps of, initializing real time lateral boundary conditions based on large scale numerical weather forecast data and lower boundary conditions based on climatological geographic data for an earth and atmosphere model domain, and incorporating data from the plurality of monitoring stations to improve real time lateral and lower boundary conditions of a forecasting model and combining model domain boundary conditions and sensor data transformed into a uniform data grid for implementing the forecasting model.
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