- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 470 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Summary
- "This book presents an integration of recent research that reveals the knowledge and reasoning of expert weather forecasters, explaining how they understand and predict the weather. The book also discusses different styles and approaches to forecasting. It summarizes what weather forecasters themselves have said about their reasoning, the literature of what makes for sound training of forecasters, studies of forecast accuracy, attempts to generate computer systems to forecast weather, and the technologies used in forecasting (including displays and visualizations) in such systems as radar and satellite. It presents a case study in which forecasters at a facility were probed for their reasoning and a proficiency scale was developed. In addition, the book summarizes and integrates the newest cutting-edge research in applied cognitive science, human factors engineering, cognitive systems engineering, and human-computer interaction that has investigated aspects of the psychology of weather forecasting, including knowledge and mental models, perceptual and display interpretation skills, and reasoning heuristics and strategies"--
- Uniform Title
- Minding the weather (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Minding the weather (Online)
- Subject
- Weather forecasting
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-462) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- What is the forecasting workplace like? -- How do people get to be forecasters? -- How do forecasters describe their reasoning? -- How well do forecasters perform? -- What characterizes expertise? -- How do forecasters get to be expert forecasters? -- What does research on forecaster knowledge tell us? -- What does research n forecaster perception tell us? -- What does research on forecaster reasoning tell us? -- Can a machine imitate the human? -- Can a machine replace the human? -- Forecaster-computer interdependence -- Prospects.
- LCCN
- 2016043623
- OCLC
- ssj0001831121
- Author
Hoffman, Robert R.
- Title
Minding the weather [electronic resource] : how expert forecasters think / Robert R. Hoffman, Daphne S. LaDue, H. Michael Mogil, Paul J. Roebber, and J. Gregory Trafton.
- Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-462) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Trafton, John Gregory, 1966-
Roebber, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)
Mogil, H. Michael.
LaDue, Daphne S. (Daphne Sue), 1967-