Harmonised TWG AC-MF & Met-Ocean DWG Use Cases

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This page you are viewing is out of date. The information here has now been merged back into the main MetOceanUseCases page. It is left here for historical interest only. -- DominicLowe - 12 Jul 2010

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The proposal below has been revised to ensure that no exisiting use cases were lost. A categorisation has been added, with a second table showing categy and sub-category, with Uses Cases) in an attempt to help understand the context of the use cases. Warning: This only a proposal and the categorisation is arbitary and incomplete -- BruceWright - 06 Jul 2010

Use Cases

Below is a proposal to harmonise the INSPIRE TWG AC-MF and OGC Met-Ocean DWG Conceptual Modelling use cases. The idea would be to have each person only 'owning' one Use Case, with responsibilities shared between the TWG AC-MF & the Met-Ocean DWG.

New MO.DWG Use Case	Category	TWG AC-MF Use Case	Old MO.DWG Use Case	Editor / Owner	Notes
1: Future Aviation	Aviation	-	UC1: future aviation scenarios derived from NextGen Net Enabled Weather (NNEW) and Single European Sky (SESAR)	AaronBraeckel	No change
2: Current Aviation	Aviation	-	UC2: current aviation operational meteorology services	PeterTrevelyan	No change
3: Routine Operational Forecasting in Support of Severe Weather Warning Service	Routine Forecast Production / Emergency Response	-	UC3: routine operational forecasting activity at national weather service in support of severe weather warning service	Possibly FredericGuillaud	Original use case focussed on routine severe weather forecasting kept
4: Multi-Model Ensemble Forecasting to Reduce or Mitigate Impacts of Landfalling Hurricane	Emergency Response	-	UC4: multi-model ensemble forecasting to reduce or mitigate impacts of landfalling hurricane	JohnSchattel	No change
5: Routine Decision Support for Winter Highways Maintenance	Routine Decision Support	UC5: Winter maintenance of highways infrastructure - decision support for de-icing	-	BruceWright (should be someone else?)
6: Seasonal, Decadal & Climate Prediction Impact Assessment	Routine Decision Support	IUC4: Use of Climate Change Scenarios	UC6: seasonal forecasting for agriculture in India	BruceWright	UC6 extended into decadal & climate prediction, with removal of climate record and specific example of agriculture in India
7: Climate Assessment based on Past Data	Routine Decision Support	IUC3: Climate Assessment (past data)	UC7: climate impact assessment for economic development in sub-saharan Africa	JeremyTandy	UC7 re-focussed climatology, with removal of climate prediction and specific example of economic development in sub-saharan Africa
8: Integration of Weather Data with Efforts to Combat Wildfires	Emergency Response	-	UC8: Use of Meteorology in Support of Emergency Response	JohnSchattel	Renamed to make this specific to Wild Fires, as Emergency Response covered in other uses cases
9: Sustained Environmental Science Campaign	Environmental Science Campaign	-	UC9: sustained environmental science campaign	AndrewWoolf	No change
10: Automated Steering of High-resolution Local Weather Forecast Models	Routine Forecast Production	-	UC10: Automated Steering of High-resolution Local Weather Forecast Models	BenDomenico	No change
11. Flood Forecasting	Emergency Response	IUC2: Flood Forecasting	UC11: Riverine Flood Forecasting using Meteorological Ensemble Forecasts	Possibly FredericGuillaud	UC11 extended to cover range of flooding forecasting scenarios, not just use ensembles. Interface with Hydrology (i.e. OGC Hydrology DWG and INSPIRE Annex 1 Hydrography TWG) needs to be carefully managed
12:Plume Forecasting in Support of Emergency Response	Emergency Response	IUC1: Use of Meteorology in Support of Emergency Response (Plume Forecasting)	-	BruceWright	As the INSPIRE use case is now specific to Plume forecasting, it has been included as a new case on the harmonised list

Use Case Categories

Below is a proposal to categorise the use cases, with a further sub-categorisation, with some details, where known. The proposed harmonised MO.DWG use case are included to show how these cover the categories. However, the list of categories and sub-categories is incomplete.

Category	Sub-category	Further Detail	New MO.DWG Use Case	Editor / Owner
Aviation	Future Aviation	Airport Weather, Optimal Flight Path	1: Future Aviation	AaronBraeckel
	Current Aviation		2: Current Aviation	PeterTrevelyan
Routine Forecast Production	Severe Weather Elements	Wind, Rain, Snow, Ice, Extreme High or Low Temperatures, Thunderstorms, Tornadoes	3: Routine Operational Forecasting in Support of Severe Weather Warning Service	Possibly FredericGuillaud
	?	?	10: Automated Steering of High-resolution Local Weather Forecast Models	BenDomenico
Emergency Response	Severe Weather Elements	Wind, Rain, Snow, Ice, Extreme High or Low Temperatures, Thunderstorms, Tornadoes	3: Routine Operational Forecasting in Support of Severe Weather Warning Service	Possibly FredericGuillaud
	Hurricane	Track, Intensity, Landfall. Probabalistic, often using ensembles	4: Multi-Model Ensemble Forecasting to Reduce or Mitigate Impacts of Landfalling Hurricane	JohnSchattel
	River Flooding	Fluvial, but including Flash-Flood (in 'River Canyons') and Longer Term Flooding	11. Flood Forecasting	Possibly FredericGuillaud
	Coastal Flooding	Height of Surge, Height of 'Total Water', Probability of Exceedence of Thresholds. "Storm-Surge" is the interaction of tides with action of wind and pressure; negative surges also important as a shipping hazard; Probabalistic estimates are obtained from ensembles	-	n/a
	Avalanche	Risk of Occurence	-	n/a
	Wildfire	Trigger Risk, Spread	8: Integration of Weather Data with Efforts to Combat Wildfires	JohnSchattel
	Plume	Fire, Chemical Release, Nuclear Release, Volcanic Eruption, Saharan dust (e.g. methodology for the identification of natural african dust episodes in PM10 and PM2.5, as the exceedances of the PM10 daily limit value need reporting under EU air quality legislation)	12: Plume Forecasting in Support of Emergency Response	Main.Bruce.Wright
Routine Decision Support	Forecast-based Decision Support	Most meteorological parameters	5: Routine Decision Support for Winter Highways Maintenance	BruceWright (should be someone else?)
	Climatology Based Decision Support	Most meteorological parameters	6: Seasonal, Decadal & Climate Prediction Impact Assessment	BruceWright
	Climate Prediction Based Decision Support	Primarily temperature, Precipitation	7: Climate Assessment based on Past Data	JeremyTandy
Environmental Science Campaign	Short Environmental Science Campaign	Small number ot organisations, lasting only a few days	-	n/a
	Sustained Environmental Science Campaign	Large international activity, involving a large number of organsations, lasting months	9: Sustained Environmental Science Campaign	AndrewWoolf