Wei Wang, Bernard Pailthorpe, Milton Speer, Bruce Buckley, Russel Morrison and Lance Leslie
The Bureau of Meteorology was the official provider of weather
services for the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sydney,
Australia. Weather models created at UNSW were improved in order
to provide high resolution weather forecasts. The HIRES model ran
everyday and the output was visualised automatically and updated on the
VisLab weather web server.
Although the service stopped in December 2000, the following
pages demonstrate the system:
» HIRES
5km: Rainfall over Sydney
The following videos show some of the visualisations created
at the beginning of the project.
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| Visualisation of wind
fly-through Australia |
Visualisation of East
Coast low |
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| Visualisation of wind,
temperature and clouds |
Visualisation of wind,
temperature and clouds |
This work was funded by an ARC SPIRT grant in 1997 between Vislab at the
University of Sydney, the University of New
South Wales and the Bureau of Meteorology.
Acknowledgements
N. Bordes and B. Simons for technical advice.
Publications
W. Wang, B. Pailthorpe, L. Leslie and E. Spark, "Three Dimensional Weather Visualisation in the Sydney Region"; Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Biometeorology and International Conference on Urban Climatology, November 8-12, 1999, Sydney, Australia (1999).
W. Wang, R. Morrison, L. Leslie, B. Pailthorpe and E. Spark, "Automated Visualisation of Weather Forecasts"; Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Biometeorology and International Conference on Urban Climatology, November 8-12, 1999, Sydney, Australia (1999).
W. Wang, N. Bordes, L. Leslie, B.A. Pailthorpe, "High Resolution Weather Visualization", HPC Asia Conference (IEEE) Proceedings, Singapore (1998).