HR: 10:50h
AN: IN42A-03 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Using Google Maps® and Google Earth® to Represent Weather Events
AU: * Samson, P J
EM: samson@umich.edu
AF: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences, 1539 Space Research Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143, United States
AU: Steremberg, A
EM: alans@wunderground.com
AF: The Weather Underground, 185 Berry St. Suite #5501, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
AU: Carver, R
EM: rob@wunderground.com
AF: The Weather Underground, 185 Berry St. Suite #5501, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
AB: Google Maps(r) and Google Earth(r) offer exciting opportunities for the display of archived and current weather events. This talk demonstrates a system that provides Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files for 1950 through current tornadic events with links to user supplied imagery and video. The tools provided can also be used as Google Mapplets for incorporation into other geobrowser applications. This represents social networking based on shared experiences with severe weather and can be used to stimulate student inquiry. The presentation includes a demonstration of the tools and other visualizations of geolocated data with examples of classroom use.
UR: http://www.wunderground.com/
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 3399 General or miscellaneous
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting