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The weather monitoring component is one of the main elements of the MCYFS (Genovese G., 2001). It forms a complex system constituted by several components (see Fig. 1). Parts of these are already operational in the current version; others will be activated in the close future.
Fig. 1: General layout of the weather monitoring components in MCYFS
The system is mainly constituted by:
- Fluxes of data : coming from external sources and orientated towards both others MCYFS components and internal (analysts) and external users
- Data Bases: where are stored all the raw and processed data. The DB are based on ORACLE technology
- Software procedures: that permit to manage the fluxes of data and to supervise all the procedure to check, store and elaborate the raw data
During 2005 will be activated the flux of data from ECMWF, that will permit to use all the potentiality included in the forecasted weather data elaborated both at medium range and long term (seasonal, decadal and century-long).
In the following chapters will be described both the current operational version and the next future features.
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