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I'd suggest contacting the Mount Washington Observatory. Through their  
two museums, a natural history museum on the mountain and a Weather  
Discovery Center i n  the valley, they have been struggling to create  
exhibits and activities to encourage visitors to interact with real  
time weather data and images for almost ten years, more probably. It  
can be very glitchy and relies on fancy computers and electronics  
which doesn't always work and often the data and image feeds, which  
must come from outside sources unless you have your own weather  
stations and/or satellites. I left there in 2001, so I hope they have  
solved some of the problems by now.

I don't have the email of the correct contact to hand, but their web  
site is at www.mountwashington.org.

Good luck,

Matt White


On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:34 PM, martin weiss 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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> Replies to this list, me or Eileen Campbell<[log in to unmask]>
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> Thanks.
>
> Martin
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