SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY METEOROLOGY 503

DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES Spring 2005

Homework No. 2

Due Thursday Feb 16

Reading in Bluestein, Vol. 1: read pp. 327-346; pp.347-350; pp. 383-385.

"Forecaster Workstation Design: Concepts and Issues" by C.A. Doswell III

1. Problem 5.26

2. Forecasting can be thought of as comprised of two general "things" (which comprise processes and/or analyses that an operational meteorologist needs to do). What are these two general things?

3. What is comprises the making of a diagnosis, according to Doswell?

4. What role do mental or conceptual models have in the forecasting process?

5. What is the distinction between using jargon and using science in the forecasting process?

6. Doswell distinguishes between two types of "data" that are used in the diagnosis process. What are these two types?

7. Doswell recommends that forecaster workstations have large system capacity, menus to access routine products, user-defined operations and interactivity. Of these, he considers interactivity the most important. What does Doswell mean by "interactivity"?