Meteorological simulation portal on the Thaigrid system

This project proposes the design and development of the meteorological portlets on the GridSphere portal framework. The portlets support the simulations of climate data with the MM5 modeling system and the visualization of the results through Vis5D. Our main goal is to provide an easy way for the researchers to work with MM5 and to utilize the Thaigrid infrastructure, where large computational resources are readily available. By using the portal framework, the users will be able to use a typical Web browser to create the simulation models. After all the required parameters in MM5 have been set, the portlets will submit the job to the Thaigrid system. Once the computation is done, the resulting data will be available for visualizing or downloading through the browser. The output can be in various forms including texts, graphs, images, and animations.