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Subject: AI and Weather Forecasting
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Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 17:15:13 EST
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From:  Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>

I have been talking with people interested in AI techniques for
weather prediction and meteorological analysis.  I would appreciate
pointers to any literature or current work on this subject, especially

    * knowledge representations for spatial/temporal reasoning;
    * symbolic description of weather patterns;
    * capture of forecasting expertise;
    * inference methods for estimating meteorological variables
      from (spatially and temporally) sparse data;
    * methods of interfacing symbolic knowledge and heuristic
      reasoning with numerical simulation models;
    * any weather-related expert systems.

I am aware of some recent work by Gaffney and Racer (NBS Trends and
Applications, 1983) and by Taniguchi et al. (6th Pat. Rec., 1982),
but I have not been following this field.  A bibliography or guide
to relevant literature would be welcome.

                                        -- Ken Laws