Space Weather On-line Relational Database (SWORD)

Eric Kihn
NESDIS/NGDC

The Space Weather On-line Relational Database (SWORD) is a system to connect the real-time space weather data of NOAA's Space Environment Center (SEC) with the historical data archived at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), for the purpose of improving forecast capability. The SWORD system uses current environmental information extracted from SEC's real-time data streams and formulates a real-time request into NGDC's data archives to identify historical equivalents of on-going events and provide SEC forecasters and the space weather community with historical context for current observations. SWORD makes real-time conditional climatological space weather information available to the space weather community for the first time through a JSP based web interface. The SWORD system is written entirely in Java and makes use of the J2EE framework for providing a bridge between the seperate but related systems of SEC/NGDC. The system itself demonstrates the ideas of JSP/Servlets, JDBC, JMS and other topics relevant to Enterprise Java data systems.

This presentation will outline the system integration issues and overall J2EE architecture for the system.

Auditorium - Paper Tuesday - 2:10 - 2:30 P.M.