Name: Clemens Bertram
Profession: MS student in Computer Science
Organization: Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, University of
Georgia (Athens)
Interests: metadata, WWW, semantic correlation, ontologies, XML, Java
Projects/systems: InfoQuilt: Semantic aspects of information correlation and
processing (thesis topic)
e-mail: clemens@om.cs.uga.edu

And here is my first question which is rather important to me:
in my thesis I use "El Nino" as a scenario to demonstrate how "semantic
hyperlinks" on the WWW, we call them MREFs (Multimedia REFerence links),
work. A part of such an MREF is an attribute query for which ontologies are
deployed.

Now I wonder if there is any "standard" ontology (or ontologies) that
contain(s) climate and weather related terms (like ENSO, trade winds,
tornados, tropical storms, clouds, precipitation, lightnings, jet stream,
and the like).
For demonstration purposes, a rather simple ontology would be fine, but I'd
like to be as close to reality as that is reasonable for a Master's thesis.

Any help in form of existing ontologies, links, persons to address, ...
would be greatly appreciated!