Governments in south western Canada and the north west corner of US are now counting dead considering region’s ability to respond extreme temperatures after an unprecedented heat wave late June. The weather this part world is usually temperate. Warnings a massive “heat dome”1 started few days before thermometers began rise on 27 Meteorologists predicted near 38°C Seattle, Washington, 43°C Port...

This paper reports our current work on Pythonissa, a visual language tailored to graphically describe weather forecast bulletins. The internal representation of a bulletin is a sequence of graphs and visual sentences are therefore represented as graph transformations. Pythonissa is being implemented as part of a more generic framework, based on the well-known visualization software Vis5D, and u...

Besides conjoining an assertion into the common ground (Stalnaker 1978), another kind of move that we often propose and accept in discourse is to change our notion of what is a thing and what is the same thing. For example, depending on how a conversation goes, in the middle of it we might start treating ‘a’ and ‘A’ as different letters, while preserving our common knowledge that it is a vowel....

Analyzing the evolution of thunderstorms is critical in determining potential for development severe weather events. Existing visualization systems short-term forecasting (nowcasting) allow basic analysis and prediction storm developments. However, they lack advanced visual features efficient decision-making. We developed a analytics tool detection hazardous their characterization, using design...

After the Second World War, British state became interested in potential of wind as an energy source. Over a period twenty years, from mid-1930s to mid-1950s, scientific and non-scientific communities surveyed airspaces landscapes produce first national survey Britain. This work informed development siting turbine connected public electricity supply, Orkney, Scotland, 1951. Meteorologists, phys...

Many nontornadic supercell storms have times when they appear to be moving toward tornadogenesis, including the development of a strong low-level vortex, but never end up producing tornado. These tornadogenesis failure (TGF) episodes can substantial challenge operational meteorologists. In this study, sample 32 pre-tornadic and 36 pre-TGF supercells is examined in 30 min pre-tornadogenesis or p...

Rapid intensification (RI) of tropical cyclones often causes major destruction to human civilization due short response time. It is an important yet challenging task accurately predict this kind extreme weather event in advance. Traditionally, meteorologists tackle the with human-driven feature extraction and predictor correction procedures. Nevertheless, these procedures do not leverage power ...

Abstract Weather radar networks have great potential for continuous and long-term monitoring of aerial biodiversity birds, bats, insects. Biological data from weather radars can support ecological research, inform conservation policy development implementation, increase the public’s interest in natural phenomena such as migration. are already used to study animal migration, quantify changes pop...

Abstract High-shear, low-CAPE environments prevalent in the southeastern United States account for a large fraction of tornadoes and pose challenges operational meteorologists. Yet, existing knowledge supercell dynamics, particularly context cloud-resolving modeling, is dominated by moderate- to high-CAPE typical Great Plains. This study applies high-resolution modeling clarify behavior superce...

The first extensive meteorological investigations of other planets were undertaken starting just about 15 years ago a t Lowell Observatory. only those comparatively few meteorologists who participated in these early studies can fully appreciate the keen foresight and remarkable scientific intuition that motivated Wexler's active encouragement of this project in days when research funds even for...