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Deep Thunder Results Examples of the IBM Research's work on applications of local and regional weather modelling Samples of several applications of the Deep Thunder weather forecasting system and its precursors are available for you to examine.  Many of them are from some of the early experimental activities in this project.  The map below shows the domains that have been used for these efforts.  You can click on a domain of interest, all of which are marked in red.     1996 Olympic Games (Atlanta) -- [June - August, 1996)   1997 American Meteorological Society Conference (Long Beach) -- [February 1997] [There are several papers on the results from the Olympics presented at this conference for you to read.]   China Meteorological Administration (Beijing) -- [May 1997]   Supercomputing 1997 (San Jose) -- [November 1997]   1998 IBM Stockholders' Meeting (Chicago) -- [April 1998]   1998 HPC-Asia Conference (Singapore) -- [September 1998]   Supercomputing 1998 (Orlando) -- [November 1998]   1999 American Meteorological Society Conference (Dallas) -- [January 1999] [There is a paper on the visualization work presented at this conference for you to read.]   Maui High-Performance Computing Center (Hawaii) -- [March 1999] Supercomputing 1999 (Portland) -- [November 1999] 2000 American Meteorological Society Conference (Long Beach) -- [January 2000] [There is a paper on the visualization work presented at this conference for you to read.]   2001 American Meteorological Society Conference (Albuquerque) [There is a paper on the visualization work presented at this conference for you to read.]   Operational Forecasts for New York City This capability was extended to provide similar forecasts operationally for the Chicago, Kansas City, Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas.  In addition, experimental forecasts to 1 km resolution are being done for the San Diego area, to 1.5 km resolution for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, and 2 km resolution for the greater Atlanta area.   The image below places all but one of these forecasts in a geographic context, which shows a map of the eastern two-thirds of the continental United States.  On the map are three regions associated with six of the seven aforementioned metropolitan areas.  They correspond to the triply nested, multiple resolution forecasting domains used to produce each high-resolution weather forecast.  The outer nests are in gray, the intermediate nests are in magenta and the inner nests are in white.  The areas within the gray borders are covered at 32 km resolution for Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta and Baltimore/Washington, 24 km for Miami-Fort Lauderdale and 16 km resolution for New York.  The areas within the magenta borders are covered at 8 km resolution for Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta and Baltimore/Washington, 6 km for Miami-Fort Lauderdale and 4 km resolution for New York.  The areas within the white borders are covered at 2 km resolution for Kansas City, Chicago Atlanta and Baltimore/Washington, 1.5 km for Miami-Fort Lauderdale and 1 km resolution for New York.  If you are interested in seeing the current results for any of these forecasts or discussing the potential applications of Deep Thunder, please contact us or visit IBM alphaWorks Services for limited, real-time access to some forecasts generated by the Deep Thunder service. There is also a variation of this system, using a different mesoscale model, MM5, instead of RAMS.  A sample of this application is available for you to examine:   United States Air Force Global Weather Center (Bosnia) lloydt@us.ibm.com Last updated September 25, 2006