Tony Meys, a meteorologist, lawyer and former Cray Research computer expert who specialized in supercomputer weather applications, is Digital Cyclone's computer-modeling expert and is charged with addressing the concerns being raised by Droegemeier and Fritsch. Unlike academic researchers, he notes, he is trying to reach that forecasting goal, not run the perfect scholarly computer study. Leaving out nonessential data makes the model faster and easier to use and has little effect on the forecast. Almost by definition, he said, that will allow good forecasting on the scale of a neighborhood. Culliton said from the Dallas airport last week.
Weather is such an important component of TV, and the Internet is becoming more important.
The Internet is individual. Culliton also claims that the requisite science and the marketplace seem to be coming together perfectly. Douglas, whose EarthWatch Communications brought a new generation of three-dimensional computer graphics to TV weather shows, is used to having doubters. Any time you go out and you're the first one, people are skeptical,'' he said. When we launched EarthWatch, we got some of the same reaction.