WEB BASED WEATHER VISUALIZATION AND FORECASTING SYSTEM

Year 2017, Volume: 30 Issue: 4, 152 - 161, 11.12.2017

Nargis Bibi

Abstract

The visualization
and forecasting system for northern areas of Pakistan has been developed to
help users to visualize historical temporal weather data in their respective
region. This system is designed with the goal to supplement the productivity of
already available website of Pakistan meteorological department. The system is
flexible enough to visualize current data. It also presents multiple weather
scenarios to visualize weather data. The weather data which is visualized is
available from 1980 to 2010 from different weather stations of Pakistan, maintained
by the Pakistan Meteorological Department. Two types of weather forecasting has
been implemented. Short term weather forecasting has been done to predict the
daily forecast and Long term forecasting uses linear regression for predicting
the weather trends from year 2011 to 2026 based on real-time data. The system
is designed in such a way that it can present data in user friendly and
comprehensible graphical formats and plots. The results for long term
forecasting show that in next ten years rain fall will decrease effectively in
the northern areas of Pakistan, whereas, an increase in the humidity has been
observed after carefully reading the forecasted plots.

Keywords

weather forecasting, weather visualization; humidity; rainfall, temperature, climate

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