Weather Forecasting :: essays research papers

Weather Forecasting     In researching this project I was amazed to find the more books on thistopic. After going through much information and reading an enormous amount ofwriting on weather forecasting I can only come to one conclusion that when wholeis considered the best forecasters can only give an educated guess of what is instore for weather. Through the some means at their disposal, such as satellites,ships at the ocean, infrared, radio, and radar transmissions even with all ofthese techniques no prediction is 100% accurate.     One question that I asked myself was "when was the primary weatherforecasting ever done?", I found out that in 1863 in Britain there was a unitedforecasting system headed by Captain Robert Fitzroy. Captain Fitzroy would sendships around Britain to warn batch of storms and such. However, he was oftenwrong and criticized and therefor committed suicide. Since then there score been many an(prenominal) other services, but the largest one currently is the National WeatherService. The National Weather Service gives predictions for all of the worldthrough satellite imagery for all countries. Also in recent history many localtelevision and radio stations have made private forecasts for small areas.     Meteorologists are people who interpret the weather, the reason I dontsay predict the weather is because even though all forecasters have the sameinformation and data at their fingertips, the port that they interpret what is infront of them can be opposite. Meteorologists receive information from varioussources, but their interpretation of the data determines the accuracy of theirprediction.     Someone might ask, "If forecasters have so much information on aparticular area how could they predict a flawed forecast ?" The answer tothat question lies in the situation that any one of a number of weather conditionsmay ruin a forecast. A f ast cold or hot front pitiable in, an unexpected flowfrom the ocean or a cold wind may change the whole days forecast.     There are many different materials and devices used by local andgovernment services to predict the weather. Some of these devices are, Radarwhich is actually sound waves, which bounce off clouds and give location ofstorms this way.      some other such device is actually a variation of radar called "DopplerRadar" actually can give the exact location of a storm within a kilometer.However, Doppler Radar is not used so much for everyday forecasting, but fortornadoes and very large storms. The way Doppler Radar works is almost the sameas regular radar with one advantage, it also can measure the speed of an objector storm, which makes its prime usage tornado watching.