Implementation of an oceanographic expert system: problems, feedback, solutions

An oceanographic expert system to describe the evolution of the Gulf Stream and its rings is discussed. The results show the expert system to be more than 60% accurate in ring-location predictions. The structural composition of the implemented expert system consists of an OPS83 rule-based shell and modules, using primarily C for algorithms. Some of the computer-related problems encountered while trying to obtain a production version for the oceanographic analyst are described.<<ETX>>