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Hello Martin,

I used to work for a company called LivingText whose main business was
making interactive meteorology teaching tools (
http://pie.concord.org/portfolio/interactive/index.html). I know they
created at least one weather-prediction activity, and by virtue of other
projects (like SharedAir and weatherunderground.com) are well-familiar with
presenting and allowing interaction with real-time sensor data. I don't know
how active the company is now, but you could try contacting the founder,
Perry Samson, who is also an Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Space Sciences
professor at the University of Michigan (
http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/people/samson).

 - Leilah Lyons


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:34 PM, martin weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> A request from a colleague:
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> We want to have a weather station where visitors can try their hand at
> predicting the weather using real data and see how various sensors and
> computer models play a critical role. I’d hate to develop something like
> this in a vacuum, since I’m sure there are models out there and good advice
> people could give us. Has anyone worked on such an exhibit, or seen good
> examples? How are existing exhibits working for visitors? Has anyone done
> evaluation they’d be willing to share? We will have people on the floor at
> set times to help visitors, but the station needs to work on its own at
> other times.
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> Thanks.
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> Martin
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