Sharing Weather Data in an Agent-based Distributed Platform

The data produced by atmosphere sense equipments is huge amount and plays an important role in weather prediction. Everyday there are terabyte and petabyte-scale data are collected. A new class of ´data grid´ infrastructure is efficient to support management, transfer, distributed access and analysis of these datasets by potentially thousands of users. Intelligent agents can play an important role in helping achieve the ´data grid´ vision. In this paper, we present a multi-agent based system framework, to manage, share, and query weather data in a geographical distributed environment. Information retrieval can be conducted either locally, or in a distributed scenario. We believe this will be a useful platform for research on weather data sharing system in a national area.