Motivation

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Motivation 1 for LEAD

• Weather technologies are very hard to use in
  sophisticated ways because theyre so complicated
  and linked together using cumbersome scripts -
  creating a HUGE DIVIDE BETWEEN THE HAVES AND THE
  HAVE NOTS

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Motivation 2 for LEAD

• High impact local weather is VERY DYNAMIC while
  our meteorological tools, cyber environments and
  learning modalities are almost entirely STATIC

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The LEAD Vision

• Revolutionize the ability of scientists,
  students, and operational practitioners to
  observe, analyze, predict, understand, and
  respond to intense local weather by interacting
  with it dynamically and adaptively in real time

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Two Principal Goals of LEAD

• Goal 1 Lowering the barrier for using complex
  end-to-end weather technologies
• Democratize the availability of advanced weather
  technologies for research and education
• Empower application in a grid context
• Facilitate rapid understanding, experiment design
  and execution
• Goal 2 Dynamic Adaptation to Weather
• Models and hazardous weather detection systems
  responding to observations and their own output
• Models and hazardous weather detection systems
  driving the collection of observations
• IT infrastructures providing on-demand, fault
  tolerant services

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What Does it Take?

• Adaptive weather tools
• Adaptive sensors
• Adaptive cyberinfrastructure
• An environment to bring all of these together
  effectively

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And how can LEAD empower learning?

• Can we use the LEAD science Gateway as the portal
  to educational activities?
• Can the underlying cyberinfrastructure be used
  for learning and discovery?
• Can we guide the student through a tiered
  sequence of learning activities that build
  interactivity leading ultimately to discovery?

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LEAD Portal and Data GUI
portal.leadproject.org
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LEAD Portal Home Page
Students can access a suite of learning
materials, particularly LEAD-to-LEARN modules,
case studies that provide guided inquiry into
complex atmospheric phenomena with the options to
explore these conditions using distributed
resources.
http//portal.leadproject.org
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Students have developed a suite of learning
modules, case studies that use archived data to
explore the physical concepts and underling
principles related to interesting atmospheric
phenomena. For example
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But so far, these modules are little more than
course supplementsthey are static. What students
need are instructional methods that demonstrate,
guide, and enable DISCOVERYwere getting there
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LEAD Portal

• https//portal-dev.leadproject.org

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