Supercomputer quietly puts U.S. weather resources back on top

Re:Supercomputer quietly puts U.S. weather resources back on... by kuya on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:35PM (#11153591)

ah, thanks, that's fascinating.

"It also learns every time you actively report to the community on sky conditions and hazards, translating this information into weather predictions."

does sunshine actively run a numerical weather prediction model like WRF?

it'd be great to assimilate all these extra sensors into the NWP centre's models, but i imagine things like cal/val and WMO agreements to share data might make things difficult for commercial companies?

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Re:Supercomputer quietly puts U.S. weather resources back on... by cryptoz on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:37PM (#11153608)

Yes, Sunshine is running WRF!

And yes it would be great to have all these sensor readings available to NOAA, Environment Canada, ECMWF, and everywhere. I have made lots of progress in getting them to talk about it, but it's a long road before any government starts using this data in its own NWP models.

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Re:Supercomputer quietly puts U.S. weather resources back on... by kuya on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:51PM (#11153714)

you're probably already aware of this, but there is some US legislation trying to open up commercial data to gov't entities:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1561...

there's some stuff being written this year as well for the side that i work (space). with all the upcoming sensor gaps, they're looking at alternative ways to cover.

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