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What are Historical Storm Event Anatomies?

As part of the initial build out, the PRICIP portal is serving a set of historical storm “event anatomies” as a targeted information product. These event anatomies include a summary of sector-specific socioeconomic impacts associated with a particular extreme event, as well as its historic context climatologically. The intent is to convey the impacts associated with extreme events and the causes of them in way that enable users to easily understand them. The event anatomies are also intended to familiarize users with in-situ and remotely sensed products typically employed to track and forecast weather and climate. Additional event anatomies will be rolled out over coming years as resources permit.

The event anatomies are web enabled using a standards-based, vendor-neutral and open-source enterprise portal and portlet architecture that, by design, provides personalization, single sign on, content aggregation from different sources while also being a web server for the presentation layer of the information systems. A portal may have, therefore, feature sophisticated personalization features to provide customized content to users (whereby portal home pages may have different set of portlets that render content that is most relevant to an user or business situation).

What is the Hurricane Iniki Event Anatomy proof-of concept?

The Hurricane Iniki event anatomy is one among an initial set of four currently under construction. It has been selected to illustrate prototypical content and to demonstrate how such content will be served. It is intended to provide a means to solicit input from the PRICIP Product Development Team and others prior to proceeding further towards completion of the other event anatomies in the initial set (i.e., Typhoon Chata’an, Super Typhoon Pongsona, and Cyclone Heta). As such, it should be viewed as preliminary in nature and subject to revision. To view the the Hurricane Iniki Event Anatomy proof-of concept click on the following thumbnail/link:

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