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Efficient Ways of Generation, Drawing and Editing of Digital Weather ChartIntroduction to Weather Note

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About Weather

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What is Weather?

State of the atmosphere to the degree that is Hot or Cold, Wet or Dry, Calm or Stormy, Clear or Cloudy

Primarily driven by air pressure (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another

One of the fundamental processes that shape the Earth The process of weathering breaks down the rocks and soils into smaller fragments

and then into their constituent substances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather

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Weather Phenomena

Weather phenomena Wind, Cloud, Rain, Snow, Fog, Dust Storms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Typhoons and Ice

storms, blizzard, and so on

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Weather Information contains…

Weather Information contains Pressure, Dew point, Wind speed, Wind direction, Temperature, Sky cover, and so on.

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Temperature(F)

Current Weather

Dew Point(F)

Sky Cover

Pressure Trend(mb)

Pressure(mb)

Wind Speed(kt)

Wind Direction

Weather Station Symbol

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How is weather related to Geospatial Information?

Weather(without GIS) Weather + GIS

Raining

Raining in the city where I

live, so heavy traffic is

anticipated.

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How is weather related to Geospatial Information?

Weather(without GIS) Weather + GIS

Typhoon moves

Typhoon moves up to

the area where my

parents live, so I should check

whether they’re safe or

not.

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How is weather related to Geospatial Information?

Weather(without GIS) Weather + GIS

Sunny

Sunny at the beach, so

many people would come to the beach to enjoy the

sunshine.

Weather Chart

Weather meets maps, becoming weather chart(weather map).

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What is Weather Chart?

Weather Chart(aka Weather Map) is a snapshot of showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region based on a map.

Quite meaningful and Important to understand weather data at a certain time at a glance International rule for sharing timely and historical weather information

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Weather Chart on geographical locations

All weather data on Weather Chart are more meaningful when presented with geographical information.

Weather is highly dependent on geographical location because weather and geographical features closely interact.

Local weather is more sensitive to local residents, so geographical information is quite important to weather information.

Central Asia Area South East Area Artic Area

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Weather Chart has…

Dew Point Depression

High PressureIsobaric Line

Low Pressure

Weather Station Data

Weather Chart shows data like below.

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Generating Weather Chart

Steps to generate weather chart

Satellite

Radar

Station

Collecting Weather Data

Data Processing

Based on processed data, forecasters manually draw weather chart with or without the help of devices(computer).

Generating Weather Chart

Weather Note by Gaia3D, Inc.,

Convenient tool for generating weather chart

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Based on processed data, forecasters manually draw weather chart with or without the help of devices(computer).

What is Weather Note?

Weather Chart shows data like below.

Satellite

Radar

Station

Collecting Weather Data

Generating Weather Chart Weather Note

Data Processing

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Weather Note : Digital Weather Chart Editor

Weather Note is a solution to generate, view, draw, and edit a digital weather chart, helping weather specialists or someone who are interested in weather easily make, edit, or save weather chart with various kinds of convenient weather chart editing tools, automatic weather chart generator, and several weather analyzing functions.

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Displaying Weather Data

Displaying Weather Data

Automatic display of basic analysis weather data from local or database after being gathered from weather stations, radars and satellite and processed on super computer.

Automatically displaying observation data and analysis data based on numerical weather prediction model

Automatically generating isoplethic curves, Isobars, Isothermal lines from grid data generated by various algorithms

Showing all necessary weather data for weather chart

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For the background map, Weather Note can communicate with any kinds of GIS engine which supports WMS protocol.

Possible to interactively change the base map even though map projections are altered.

Background Map

WMS Protocol

Numerical Model

(GRIB2)

Observation Data

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Environment.xml

Environment setting for background map

Projection Selectionmer: Mercator

lcc: Lambert Conformal Conicpsg: Polar Stereographic

Map Server Communication SRS Selection

Weather Chart generating area

setting

Will embed this function into the application to set up these on the program or interactively change if panning the map.

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Convenient weather specific UI for editing, viewing, generating weather charts Windows friendly UI

User Interface

Quick MenuMain Menu

Layers

Main Functions

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Automatic display of basic analysis weather data with isoplethic curves, isobars, and isothermal lines from grid data generated by various algorithms

Displaying Weather Information

High/Low Pressure Isobaric Lines Isothermal Lines

Warm/Cold Observation Points Fronts

Dew Point Depression Geopotential Height Typhoon

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Displaying satellite data with weather information such as Isobaric line, high or low atmospheric pressure, isothermal line, isoplethic line, dew point depression, front, and cold and warm etc.

Displaying Satellite Data

* COMS(Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite): Korean Satellite for weather observation and forecasting

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Displaying radar data with weather information such as Isobaric line, high or low atmospheric pressure, isothermal line, isoplethic line, dewpoint depression, front, cold and warm and radar etc.

Displaying Radar Data

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Overlaying several layers with various weather information to compare weather data at different times or at different heights

Overlaying Layers

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Supporting various map projections like Lambert Conformal, Mercator, Polar Stereographic and so on

Supporting various map projections

MercatorPolar Stereographic Lambert Conformal Conic

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Working weather charts on graphic tablet

Using in Graphic Tablet

Working on weather charts in Korea Meteorological Administration

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Weather charts generated from Weather Note can be saved as raster image.

Saving as Raster Image

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Supporting PNG(Portable Network Graphics) and KML(Keynote Markup Language) format output

Used as basis weather chart published at Korea Meteorological Administration website http://www.kma.go.kr/weather/images/analysischart.jsp

Weather Chart Extraction

Demo

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All initial data load up for editing.

Weather Note

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High/Low pressure creation and editing

Feature Generation and Editing

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Isobaric Lines creation and editing

Feature Generation and Editing

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Dew Point Depression creation and editing

Feature Generation and Editing

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Front Lines creation and editing

Feature Generation and Editing

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Sea Fog creation and editing

Feature Generation and Editing

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Sea Wind creation and editing

Feature Generation and Editing

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Typhoon creation and editing

Feature Generation and Editing

Interactive Weather Chart

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Interactive Weather Chart

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Interactive Weather Chart

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Interactive Weather Chart

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Interactive Weather Chart

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Interactive Weather Chart

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