As an intel airman, the most important part of our work was often the briefing of our findings to decision makers. This gave me a lasting interest in the work of conveying complex technical data and historical trend analysis to laymen. As I examine potential applications of this specific skill set, I saw this project as an opportunity to examine the application of it in the field of meteorology. While setting up my timeline, I happened to find the work of another student who had already done this assignment on the same subject matter, thus I pivoted the focus of my project to examining the work of conveying weather information to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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My main sources for this work were articles from the Storm Prediction Center at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Royal Meteorological Society as well as The Weather Channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tool I used to create the timeline is TimelineJS, an open-source tool that can be used to visualized a custom google spreadsheet. I found the tool to be simple, effective and easy to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I originally started assembling the project intending to just cover the different forms of weather visualization throughout history. After changing focus, I wanted to highlight the change in weather visualization that I thought most people would recognize: television. Using google searches, I was able to find primary source articles from the NOAA and The Weather Channel about their earliest implementations of certain significant technologies in the field of meteorology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n