Monday, September 22, 2008

Additional Features in Future

Additional Features in Future

1) More location will be added.

2)More information will be added.
-Level of humidity, Wind speed , Visibility

Application



23rd_sept_tuesday.rar

Program Structure and Program functions

Program Structure





Program Functions

Process User's Inquiry
1) Get Inquiry
-Sort inquiry by keywords
-Process inquiry by keywords

2) Display Weather Records
-Retrieve records
-Format and compile records
-Display record
-Program structure


Sunday, July 13, 2008

Gantt Chart


Project:
A Web to Monitor The Weather and Climate Changes Around the World.

Activity A (color) - Team formation, picking a title.
Activity B (color) - Proposal Planning.
Activity C (color) - Tasks being assigned to members.
Activity D (color) - Work Break System diagram, Gantt Chart, network diagram (AOA).
Activity E (color) - Gathering information's and links.
Activity F (color) - Preparation of system requirements.
Activity G (color) - Implementation of project design.
Activity H (color) - Developing the system.
Activity I (color)- Progress report will be uploaded weekly.
Activity J (color)- Troubleshooting, Testing, Debugging and Wrap up.
Activity K (color)- Complete of research paper.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Work Break System

This the Work Break System diagram of our project, which consist of level 1 ( red) , level 2 ( blue ), level 3 ( green) and level 4 ( yellow ).

Project Planning

Phase 1: Proposal and Planning (Week 1)
-Formation of team
- Brainstorming session and choosing o a title. A brief proposal which includes “Project Title”, "Objectives", "Introduction" and "Discussion"
- Registering the project's weblog - http://atmocast.blogspot.com/


Phase 2: Requirement and Design (Week 2 – 3)
-Tasks assigned to members.
- Work Break System Diagram, Gantt Chart, and network diagram(AOA) will be uploaded.

Phase 3: Preparation (Week 3 - 4)
-Preparation of a system requirement specification regarding the project.
-Implementation of project design (using Unified Modeling Language (UML)).

Phase 4: Development (Week 5 - 11)
-Developing of the system, and implementation.
-A progress report on the development status of the project is to be uploaded to the blog every
week.

Phase 5: Troubleshooting, Testing and Wrapping Up (Week 12)
-Application and implementations will be tested for faults, bugs and errors.
-Complete product will be uploaded, demonstration will be shown.

Phase 6: Documentation (Week 13)
-Completion of research paper which includes; discussion, problems faced, problems solving methods, team's comment and conclusions.

Team Members

Project Proposal

Objective:

To create a web that can monitors the weather and climates changes around the world, starting from Malaysia

Intro:

Climate is the average and variations of weather in a region over long periods of time. Climate change refers to the variation in the Earth's global climate or in regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by processes internal to the Earth, external forces (e.g. variations in sunlight intensity) or, more recently, human activities.

In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term "climate change" often refers only to changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as global warming.

Earth has undergone periodic climate shifts in the past, including four major ice ages. These consisting of glacial periods where conditions are colder than normal, separated by intergalcial periods. The accumulation of snow and ice during a glacial period increases the surface albedo, reflecting more of the Sun's energy into space and maintaining a lower atmospheric temperature. Increases in greenhouse gases, such as by volcanic activity, can increase the global temperature and produce an interglacial. Suggested causes of ice age periods include the positions of the continents, variations in the Earth's orbit, changes in the solar output, and vulcanism.

Discussion:

The web would consist of an interactive world map where user would be able to click on any desired places on the world map to check on the current weather and its climate: temperature, status, condition. There are few types of climates which are maritime, mesothermal, tropical, polar and mountain will be shown. Furthermore weather condition such as sunny, rainy, snowy or thunderstorm will be provided.

Problems that may surface are for example, the current condition or status of a certain place might be as accurate as origin place; there will be errors and data loss. The actual climate of a particular place might differ from what is shown in the page. To overcome this problem, a different source of climates updates would be helpful to get a more accurate value; hence it can be a good forecast site.

Other than that, the web might not cover the whole world as there will be a few secluded areas that will be missed. This is because area with less population or zero population is not being focus. To overcome this problem, a different source of climates updates would be helpful to get a more accurate value; hence user can get a better knowledge on their desired place.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Blast off...


To create a web that can monitors the weather and climates changes around the world, starting from Malaysia.