A Java Web Services Tool for Discovering the (Current) Best Weather Forecast Data

摘要

A software tool is being developed which will provide users with the most up-to-date statistical information on the current performance of four mesoscale weather models. Through a Java Server Pages (JSP) generated interface, users will be able to initiate single model runs as well as weighted ensembles whereby the model which performs best (i.e., the lowest root mean square error for a particular parameter when compared to ground truth data) is given the highest weight and vice-versa. These model output statistics will be automatically converted to extensible Modeling Language (XML) format before being stored in the XML database used for this development, "eXist". Client side, a user will then be able to query the eXist database, via Axis, the 3rd generation Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to discover whether a model or a weighted ensemble is currently providing the most accurate data.