A Mechanism on Parallel Processing to Numerical Weather Prediction for Weather Routing : Proposal of WRF Model Introduction and Deployment and Benchmark
Takeshi YOKOI, Ruri SHOJI, Hitoi TAMARU, H. Yabuki, Kohei Ohtsu · The Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation · 2009
Regarding the development of a land support system based on weather routing to calculate the optimal route of the vessel, which is required to use the high accuracy datasets of predicted ocean environments. However, recent weather routing services are not possible to forecast the environmental datasets and depending on a few forecast agencies with high-cost in the limited sea area. In this paper, we develop a numerical weather prediction system for the weather routing service, which is based on the parallel processing technology. In addition, we propose a package-based deployment mechanism for the numerical weather prediction model with scalability and flexibility and describe its implementation method and the benchmark results. Finally, we show the forecast results of the surface wind at a local sea area could be successfully simulated by proposed system.