zum Thema: Environmental Modeling with the Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO) and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
Zeit: Donnerstag, 29 Oktober 2015, 12:00 Uhr (s.t.)
Ort: SR des Wegener Center im 1. Stock, Brandhofgasse 5
Moderation: Prof. Karl Steininger
Herzlich willkommen!
Abstract:
The Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO) is a NATO Science for Peace sponsored project, deployed at Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Morocco. It includes a real-time satellite remote sensing ground station, post processing computer clusters and relevant storage. MDEO provides real-time data from EUMETSAT multiple earth observing satellites, near-real-time data products and archival data access, with respect to facilitating vulnerability assessment, early warning and recovery for an array of anthropogenic and biogenic disasters. MDEO is an exhaustive source of initial and boundary conditions required by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The WRF is a numerical weather prediction program with a spatial resolution ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. When it is coupled to a chemical package, WRF can simulate atmospheric pollution. This model is also used to study regional climate by including several modifications to the program files. In this presentation, MDEO will be described and some WRF simulations results will be shown and discussed.
Biography:
Chaker El Amrani is Doctor in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation (University of Liège, Belgium, 2001). He worked at Belgocontrol in Brussels on air traffic control software engineering. After joining Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Morocco, he served from 2009 to 2014 as chair of the Computer Engineering Department. He is the NATO Partner Country Project Director of a realtime remote sensing initiative for early warning and mitigation of disasters and epidemics in Morocco. He lectures on distributed systems and conducts research on Big Data Mining and Environmental Information Systems. Dr. El Amrani is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior member. He has contributed since 2004 to IEEE Morocco Section activities as an active volunteer. He is Research Collaborator at Bristol University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University.