Weather Exchange Models

Introduction

If we wish to have interoperability with a range of OGC standards such as WMS, WCS, GML, WFS, Processing and Sensor related services, such as for vector meteorological data, we need to start looking at common underlying conceptual models and also 'application schemas'.

For example, a legally mandated presentation map layer may show an area of turbulence or cumulus cloud, but this area may have been drawn by a human, or may have been derived automatically from an underlying coverage grid, or even derived directly from a set of scattered observations. To ensure such seamless processing, the underlying conceptual models and derived schemas have to be consistent and unambiguous.

• Climate Science Modelling Language (CSML)
• ncML-GML
• Weather Exchange Model (AIXM & WXXM). GML-based
• Metadata for Climate Models (METAFOR)
• FMI Meteorological Objects (GML-based, to be renamed as Weather Objects Modeling Language, WOML)
• others?

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Discussion

-- MarieFrancoiseVoidrotMartinez - 02 Jul 2009

-- ChrisLittle - 07 Aug 2009

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Teleconferences minutes or working groups reports

15 December 2009 : Minutes of the 1st Teleconference on Modelling

25 Novembre 2009 : Workshop use of OGC standards in Meteorology :Report of the working group on Conceptual modelling: See file attached