Weather support for Athens Olympic Games

2004 using Web Based technology

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 Olympic Venues

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 Weather Requirements

•Detailed 48Hours forecasts every 3 hours for each Olympic Venue.

Temperature Relative Hum. Pressure Wind Speed & Dir

WBGT Precipitation Weather Cond.

Amount

•General forecast for today and tomorrow for all venues four times per day.

•Five days forecast twice a day.

•Forecast of WBGT index twice a day.

•Warnings for severe weather conditions (Strong winds and

Thunderstorms).

•Current weather conditions every 10 minutes.

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 Data Flow Diagram

Olympic-Paraolympic NWP Products

Observations
Venues Obs & Venues COSMO-LM
Weather Forecast ECMWF

Public HNMS
Public Web Pages
Safety Olympic Meteo Center

Management
Operation
Center
ATHENS 2004
Web Site
Athens 2004
INFO 2004

Officials, Athletics, Staff, Public

Accredited Media
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 Data Formulation Requirements

•XML Format

•Printer Friendly Format

•Multilanguage

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 First Solution

NWP (Meteograms)
DTD XML

Dynamic Data Update

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 First Solution

Simple Meteorological Editor

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 New Approach

• Initial production
• Archiving
• Production
• Creation
• Management
• Control

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 New Approach

Observation Network NWP GRIB DATA

Decoding & Quality Control Meteogram Processing

Observations Tables Meteograms Tables

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 New Approach

NWP (Meteograms)

Corrected Values

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 New Approach

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 New Approach

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 New Approach

PDF
Templates
Obs

DTD XML

Corrected
Values

Web Site

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 New Approach

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 New Approach

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 New Approach

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 New Approach

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 Warnings Problem

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 Warnings Problem

PDF

Warnings
XML

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 New Requirements

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 Questions ?

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