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; and
one or more processor executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more processor executable programs include;
instructions for combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local Doppler radar system thereby initializing and creating boundary conditions for a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions;
instructions for deriving three dimensional meteorological fields using current observed and predicted meteorological fields including three dimensional wind fields, wind perturbations and temperature perturbations; and
instructions for providing an inversion technique to compute realistic perturbation pressures and perturbation temperature fields, and error magnitudes in the recovered fields, which can be used to predict wind field changes and wind loading over a time duration.
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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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28 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; and one or more processor executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more processor executable programs include; instructions for combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local Doppler radar system thereby initializing and creating boundary conditions for a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions; instructions for deriving three dimensional meteorological fields using current observed and predicted meteorological fields including three dimensional wind fields, wind perturbations and temperature perturbations; and instructions for providing an inversion technique to compute realistic perturbation pressures and perturbation temperature fields, and error magnitudes in the recovered fields, which can be used to predict wind field changes and wind loading over a time duration. - 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; and one or more processor executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more processor executable 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 thereby implementing an earth and atmosphere model domain; instructions for combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local Doppler radar system thereby initializing and creating boundary conditions for a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions; instructions for performing downward integration from a top boundary thereby deriving three dimensional meteorological fields using current observed and predicted meteorological fields including three dimensional wind fields, wind perturbations and temperature perturbations; and instructions for providing an inversion technique to compute realistic perturbation pressures and perturbation temperature fields, and error magnitudes in recovered fields, which can be used to predict wind field changes and wind loading over a time duration. - 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:
assembling at a computer system meteorological sensor data from a plurality of Doppler radar 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 transmitting the meteorological Doppler radar data to a central server having program instructions where when said program instructions are executed are adapted to perform the steps of; combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from the plurality of Doppler radar monitoring stations thereby initializing and creating boundary conditions for a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions; 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 the meteorological Doppler radar 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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deriving unknown model parameters from observations distributed in space and time; inserting Doppler radar observations into a numerical model and determining the state of the numerical model; inserting a wind radial velocity, adjusting two other wind components with respect to a continuity equation and some mean quantities; retrieving pressure and temperature perturbations; refining quality control, editing and analysis techniques thereby providing a more accurate three dimensional wind field recovered from the observed radial velocities and radar reflectivities; combining regional topographical, climatological and infrastructure data to create a forecast model; and tuning the forecast model to fit local conditions as measured real-time by a local mesonet by selecting parameterization schemes based on local conditions as measured real-time by the local mesonet and the differences between predicted conditions and local conditions as measured. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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23. A computer implemented method, comprising the steps of:
receiving at a computer system meteorological sensor data from a plurality of Doppler radar stations communicably linked over a wide area network and placed geographically based on infrastructure data and natural environmental and man-made regional characteristic data to a central server having program instructions where when said program instructions are executed 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; inserting a wind radial velocity from the meteorological sensor data, adjusting two other wind components with respect to a continuity equation and some mean quantities; retrieving pressure and temperature perturbations; and refining quality control, editing and analysis techniques thereby providing a more accurate three dimensional wind field recovered from observed radial velocities and radar reflectivities. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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27. 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 Doppler radar 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; combining the earth and atmosphere model domain boundary conditions and the sensor data collected from the local mesonet thereby implementing a forecasting model; inserting a wind radial velocity from the sensor data, and adjusting two other wind components with respect to the continuity equation and some mean quantities; retrieving pressure and temperature perturbations; and refining quality control, editing and analysis techniques thereby providing a more accurate three dimensional wind field recovered from observed radial velocities and radar reflectivities. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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