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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095315 | Method of generation and meteorological system with progressive prediction of meteorological situations around a carrier The disclosure relates to a meteorological system and a method of generation with progressive prediction of data relating to the meteorological situation around a carrier. In at least one embodiment, the method includes reading data relating to the speed of the carr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8060308 | Weather monitoring techniques Arrangement and method for monitoring weather includes a sensor system arranged in vehicles for obtaining information about the weather in the vicinity of the vehicle, a communication system arranged in each vehicle and coupled to a respective sensor system for comm... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050864 | Vertical situation display of weather information A method is present for displaying weather information. A number of weather conditions present within an altitude range along a route of an aircraft is identified from weather data. A type of weather indicator is selected based on a type of weather condition in the ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032302 | Method and system of modifying weather content A computer-implemented method of identifying weather events in geographic regions of interest includes monitoring queries to a weather information system. The queries contain at least one field indicative of a geographic region of interest. A signal indicative of th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019546 | Tsunami monitoring system A system of detecting tsunami conditions using communications for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. The SCADA system comprises an enterprise server, and a RTU. The RUT includes a sensor that continuously collect information. The system inclu... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8000898 | Weather collection system A method of collecting weather data includes determining probable occurrences of weather events. Contact information corresponding to a plurality of users is maintained. Weather collection devices are sent to the plurality of users prior to the occurrence of the pro... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983843 | Weather severity and characterization system A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomen... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984052 | System and method for integration of data records having differing data types to a geographical information system According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a computing system generally includes a geographical information system that is coupled to a data record interface. The data record interface is operable to receive a data record having a data type that is different fro... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983844 | Device and method for determining wind conditions using multiple wind resource grids A method for determining wind conditions within a geographic area based on a plurality of input wind resource grids. The input wind resource grids include input points associated with a geographic position and a wind condition. An output wind resource grid having a ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7945388 | Test bed for in-situ studies An impact test system for collecting hail storm data comprises a vehicle, a video recorder, a container, a plurality of dynamic force sensors, an atmospheric instrument system, a mounting fixture, and a data processing system. The plurality of dynamic force sensors ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941274 | Advanced verification information for improved operational results To provide human forecasters with monitoring and verification tools to know when a machine-generated forecast may already be good enough for public use or to know when to intervene to improve a forecast. Performance support systems and methods that deliver real-time... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7930283 | Weather information in a calendar A system receives location information from a user, retrieves weather information based on the received location information, retrieves calendar information associated with the user, and associates the weather information with the calendar information in a calendar ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917291 | System and method for predicting tornado activity The present system and method detects and predicts potential tornadic activity. In one aspect, the invention predicts potential tornadic activity based on radar data. In another aspect, the invention predicts potential tornadic activity based on an integrated and co... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7869952 | Interlaced limb scanning method A method for remote atmospheric sensing. A sensor is provided on a moving platform above earth, the sensor including a plurality of fields of regard along the orbit, each field of regard of the plurality of fields of regard comprising a respective first subscan and ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7797109 | Method for determining and reporting the presence of red tide at beaches Human observers stationed on or near beaches gather subjective observations of one or more observable beach conditions associated with respiratory distress. Subjectively determined observations such as dead fish and audible coughing provide a better indication of th... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792642 | Weather severity and characterization system A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomen... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788035 | Systems and methods for determining turbulence and turbulent mixing in the free atmosphere Systems may methods may be provided for determining turbulent mixing characteristics. The systems and methods may include obtaining sounding data associated with an atmospheric column and determining first vertical potential temperature profiles from the sounding da... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7774139 | Weather collection system A method of collecting weather data includes determining probable occurrences of weather events. Contact information corresponding to a plurality of users is maintained. Weather collection devices are sent to the plurality of users prior to the occurrence of the pro... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7752188 | Weather information in a calendar A system receives location information from a user, retrieves weather information based on the received location information, retrieves calendar information associated with the user, and associates the weather information with the calendar information in a calendar ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751977 | Real time environmental measurement and reporting system for navigable waterways and method of use COTS devices are integrated into a system employing custom software and custom hardware and software interfaces to collect and communicate data concerning current flows around fixed structure (e.g., inland locks, bridges, harbor structures, etc.) in various bodies o... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751978 | Weather severity and characterization system A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomen... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739048 | Method and system for determining water vapor profile using GPS signals A system and method for obtaining weather related information for a portion of the Earth's atmosphere between a predetermined surface portion of the Earth and an airborne object located over the predetermined surface portion, and operating at a known altitude, using... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725262 | Climatic forecast system A climatic forecast system for generating an optimized forecast remotely acquires digital data via a digital network, the digital data including observations and at least one model digital forecast; and performs hybrid forecasting, including inputting the observatio... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720606 | Generation and distribution of personalized multimedia natural phenomenological information Natural-phenomenological information is personalized to the unique requirements of a subscriber and distributed to the subscriber. Natural-phenomenological data is gathered from a variety of sources, such as current ground observations, forecast conditions, satellit... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7664601 | Weather incident prediction A method for short-term prediction of storm cells in aircraft using a modified weather radar system, and a modified weather radar system embodying the method. The storm cell prediction method including the operations of accessing first and second weather radar image... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7643941 | Cloud water characterization system A system and method for providing a statistical measure of the size of liquid water droplets in a cloud, as well as a system and method for the detection and/or measurement of the presence of a cloud, liquid water content in the cloud and ice water content in the cl... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7584054 | System and method for displaying storm tracks A system and method for displaying storm tracks is provided. The method includes combining topographic imagery, preferably high-resolution photographic images, with storm path vectors. The method further includes panning along the storm path vector, in a “zoomed-i... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7561970 | Weather severity and characterization system A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomen... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558673 | Method and system for determining atmospheric profiles using a physical retrieval algorithm The present invention provides a new approach for processing hyper-spectral radiance data. It uses a transformation matrix to convert an instrument radiance spectrum into a pseudo-monochromatic radiance spectrum. The pseudo-monochromatic radiance spectrum is produce... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558674 | Weather severity and characterization system A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomen... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7542852 | Derivation and production of high-resolution, very short-term weather forecasts Weather forecasting systems and methods for deriving and producing very short-term weather forecasts. Weather data and forecast information maybe input to derive very short-term weather forecasts in the 0-6 hour time frame. The system and methods include an expert s... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7536260 | Method and system for creating a weather-related virtual view A weather-related image of a remote location is displayed at a local computer by first storing a plurality of digital images of the remote location. Then, data associated with each respective image is stored. The data is of the kind capable of being used to identify... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532982 | Freeze forecasting device for hot water heating apparatus and hot water heating apparatus A freeze forecasting device for a hot water heating apparatus, for forecasting a possibility of freeze of water in a water passage circuit due to reduction in outside air temperature at a forecast target time on a forecast target day. The device includes a clock por... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529623 | Weather predicting apparatus, and weather predicting method, computer product A weather predicting apparatus computes predicted values indicative of the weather at predetermined time intervals after a predetermined time point in the past based on each initial value, and compares each predicted value with a corresponding actual value in the pa... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7523001 | Method and apparatus for operating wind turbine generators A method of operating a wind farm that includes a plurality of wind turbine generators (WTGs) includes generating wind turbine generator (WTG) availability data for each WTG. The method also includes generating wide-area meteorological data for a first geographical ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7472021 | Atmospheric feature detection using Langrangian scalar integration Described are a method and a system for detecting an atmospheric feature. A value of a meteorological scalar field at an initial time is determined for a set of tracers. Each tracer is initialized at a first tracer location. An integration time is selected according... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7467043 | Method for determining current synthetic ultraviolet index for a specified location A current synthetic UV index is developed and successfully verified against direct surface measurements of UV index values. The purpose of this invention is to distribute this current synthetic UV index through cell phones nationwide. This will inform cell phone use... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7424415 | Automated system for modeling faulted multi-valued horizons In a method for modeling a reservoir having a horizon surface with a reverse fault, a volume of the reservoir is partitioned into fault blocks. A bounding surface of each of the fault blocks includes a portion of the reverse fault. The interior of each of the fault ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421344 | System and method for presenting personalized weather information and the like A system and method for generating weather reports and the like which are precisely computed automatically for a particular individual user's geographic location, e.g., home or work, and which are provided to the individual user in both graphical and textual format ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421422 | Method for graphical interaction with geographic databases for interactive broadcast presentation Methods and systems for providing random access, interactive presentations of geographic and temporal information for a region of interest. The system includes a database that receives and stores geographically registered data, an input system that receives paramete... | 09/02/2008 |
