Publishing HURDAT Stormtrack fixes over the Web

Nicholas Carrasco, Russell St. Fleur and Nirva Morisseau-Leroy
HRD/AOML

NOAA's Hurricane Research Division, located at AOML, developed a JAVA-based tool (H*WIND) for global monitoring of tropical cyclones. A interactive web application, the HURDAT Web Application, is being developed to manipulate stormtrack fixes. The stormtrack fixes are part of the H*WIND database, a scientific schema consisting of atmospheric observations and other related data such as the HURDAT database. The HURDAT Web Application allows for users to query the H*Wind database for HURDAT fixes and graphically view tracks over the web. Several graphical tools are also available allowing a user to zoom in and out on a track, to determine the location of a position, and to measure the distance from any location to another. The HURDAT Web Application is design to use J2EE components such as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Servlets, and Java ServerPages (JSP). This is feasibility study to determine the effectiveness of converting the H*Wind application from a client-server application to a web-based platform.

BIO - Nicholas Carrasco Nicholas works as a Computer Specialist at the Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida. He develops software for decoding and processing real-time meteorological data.

Science Center Exhibit/Demo Tuesday - 3:10 - 4:00 P.M. Other demo times will be posted at the exhibit.