Algorithms

The Research Applications Laboratory has a large team of scientists and engineers with extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of meteorological algorithms used in diagnosing and forecasting weather phenomena. more

Community Code

Community code is a free and shared software resource with distributed development and centralized support. more

Computing Infrastructure

RAL's computing infrastructure relies on a growing infrastructure of rack-mounted data servers and parallel computing clusters attached to large RAID storage systems. more

Data Management and Distribution

Data management services within RAL include a large suite of tools for data generation, archiving, distribution, and visualization. more

Data Mining

The data mining field encompasses a wide variety of application domains including astronomy, atmospheric science, bioinformatics, business, computer vision, economics, high energy physics, medical imaging, molecular chemistry, robotics, security, surveillance and so on. more

Decision Support Systems

Decision support systems are one of the core technology areas developed at the Research Applications Laboratory (RAL). more

Engineering Expertise

RAL has engineering expertise in algorithm development, data visualization and many program languages. more

Model Development

Striving to accurately represent the weather from advanced modeling and data assimilation methods is only part of the mission, more

Software Engineering Process

Software engineering process and practices are the structures imposed on development of a software product. more

Technology transfer

RAL is a scientific R&D organization tasked to develop real world weather-related decision support applications for clients. more