Recent developments at FMI

EGOWS 2007

Dublin

Mikko Strahlendorff

Overview• New features to operational system: SmartMet 1

• Overall improvements

• New GUI features

• NextGen status: SISU / SmartMet 2

• New project organization

• Verification

• Workstation 0.3 with front editor

• New delivery engine

• Service level guarantees for the web

• Metadata

SmartMet weather service process

PRODUCTS

SMS/WAP WWWemail fax print media ftp etc. DISTRIBUTION

radarsaeroplane obs.

synopsoundings

satellites

OBSERVATIONS

DATA TRANSMISSION AND PRODUCTION

Visualisationinformation editing

Central data warehouse- observations- model calculation- checked fields- interpretations

Creation of the customer products from the data checked by the dutyProduction

Collection & GTS

Numerical weather forecasts

SmartMet system architecture

DATAWAREHOUSEFiles and DB:s

BackendServer

ForecastWorkstation TAF editor

Central forecast office

Regional forecast office

MeteorologicalMessage SwitchSystem

Satellitereceiver

Radarreceiver

Observationreceiver

Numerical modelingon supercomputers

internet

SmartMetproduction

ServersWeb serviceCluster

Customers

Duty forecasters

firewall

General SmartMet 1 improvements• More mouse features

• More configuration possible, syntax and logic is standardized

• Data can be zipped or used from q2server web service

• Interpolation and griding is available if data needs to be visualized or calculated

• Flight levels etc

• Point observation etc griding

• New data available:

• Helsinki TestBed mesonet observations

• AMDAR, Airep

• Radar windprofiles

Sounding display improvements and new data

Cross section follows the mouse• Dragging the mouse redraws

constantly the cross section

• Move the whole line or a point

Soundings plotting and more satellite data• Scroll button helps

quick height and satellite channel changes

• All channels and many composites from MSG and all polar orbiting satellites

• Printing on big plotters with geo referenced map paper

Product examplesMedia

• TV

• radio

• newspaper

• Web

B to B customers

• maritime transport • trade market

• road traffic

Mobile phone service

Our Mobile Channels

SMSSMS WAP WAP MMS MMS APPLICATIONS APPLICATIONS

MoscowThurdsday Night light showers.

Day 18, night 9 CFriday

Daytime rain. Night clear.

day 23 night 13 C

Local WeathereGlobal WeatherSailing Weather

Golf WeatherRoad Weather

Radar AnimationsWarnings

Local WeathereGlobal WeatherSailing Weather

Golf WeatherRoad Weather

Radar AnimationsWarnings

Local WeathereGlobal WeatherSailing Weather

Golf WeatherRoad Weather

Radar AnimationsWarnings

SISU / SmartMet 2 news• First pilots were not accepted

• Responcefulness too slow for forecasters

• Functionality was wrong in research opinion

• Flight planning test service was not used

• Organization has been cut down on the top

• One client (from the weather service) to order the system

• Goal setting changed to more concrete usables in short term

• CineSat system takes care of radar and satellite production

New SISU goals for 2007• New verification system

• New webservice based workstation

• SATrep production tool and shift to overall digital analysis

• Streamline wind forecasting process

• Better rain nowcasting by managing CineSat production

• More research for cloud base and visibility forecasting tools (climatology…)

New verification site is coming soon

Verification – Results for all stations• All FMI observation stations

are verified

• Comparison between different models and forecaster edited fields

• Based on guidelines from ECMWF / Pertti Nurmi

SISU software components

MESSAGING

META-DATA-BASE

MIRWAserver

MIRWA

SERVER

QUERY DATA:Obs, models etc

Image data from CINESAT

info

control

Weather objectsand

control info

GIS

SERVER

SERVER

info

control

control

info

Product generator

info

service

query

SMART MET 2

SmartMet 2 workstation 0.3• Basically it’s a

specialized web browser

• Java client talking to JEE business logic server and other data servers

• Geographic information from OGC standard Mapservers

• Model fields and satellite data visualization in place

• Layer and plugin based GUI

Front editor plugin• Line and area

drawing with control points

• High/Low and Weather symbols drawing

• Textual descriptions

• Short term goal is SATRep production with new tool

Front editor plugin continued

Delivery engine: needs in all directions

Delivery Engine

• Concept background:

• Very high traffic web service

• Service response level guarantee needed

• Modular design to permit different services on common base

• Solution found in established Search Engine designs

DE frontend• Incoming request to http server

• Http interface indicates from address path requested module and possible data source

• Post/get parameters are passed on to backend

• Modules on backend can implement SOS, WMS, WFS or WCS

DE backend• Modules can be build conveniently from

common methods taking care of data retrieval and response functions

• Modules have to decide their interface

• Q2 in house and Web Map Service interfaces will be used for pilot services

Metadata challenges• WIS / SIMDAT etc want metadata

• Sensor Web Enablement OGC framework/tools to do it

• How?

• Every processing step must be registered, maybe modeled

• Catch the whole processing chain

• Common meta info: timeref, georef, geophysical parameter

• Storing it is a challenge, because usage shall be frequent to utilize all benefits

• FMI trial: xml to object, objects to db4o, db4o to other DB:s

• Experiences?

Personal career move to Brussels• Seconded national expert to the GMES Bureau

• Global monitoring for environment and security Bureau is a worker for the European Commission

• The ultimate goal is to get all environmental monitoring information accessible to anyone

• Own responsibility is in situ observations and the meteorological community (EUMETNET & ECOMET)

• Services to be developed need machine 2 machine communication to improve significantly

• Very much what we want, so EGOWS can help it happen

Thank you!• Any questions:

• Cheers