Patent ID: 7792642

Claim:
A method of organizing weather phenomena information using a computing system comprising at least one computer, the method comprising: (a) associating, by the at least one computer, a first dimension of a multi-dimensional database with one or more instances of weather phenomena, wherein the one or more instances of weather phenomena are identified using weather data obtained from a first type of weather data source; (b) associating, by the at least one computer, a second dimension of the multi-dimensional database with a plurality of parameters that characterize the one or more instances of the weather phenomena, wherein the plurality of parameters are obtained using weather data obtained from the first type of weather data source and at least one second type of weather data source; (c) associating, by the at least one computer, a third dimension of the multi-dimensional database with a plurality of storm instance-relative times, wherein the plurality of storm instance-relative times corresponds to at least the present time and one or more future times; (d) associating, by the at least one computer, a fourth dimension of the multi-dimensional database with one or more absolute times, wherein the absolute times correspond to temporal snapshots of information contained in the first, second, and third dimensions; and (e) associating, by the at least one computer, a fifth dimension of the multi-dimensional database with a plurality of platforms, systems, or sites of the first type of weather data source.