Minding the weather: how expert forecasters think
The History of Expertise Studies -- Methods for Peering Into the Black Box -- Expert Knowledge -- Expert Reasoning -- Learning and Cognitive Flexibility -- Learning -- Cognitive Flexibility and Cognitive Transformation -- Expert Perceptual Skill -- Integrated Models of Expert "Macrocognition&qu...
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| Summary: | The History of Expertise Studies -- Methods for Peering Into the Black Box -- Expert Knowledge -- Expert Reasoning -- Learning and Cognitive Flexibility -- Learning -- Cognitive Flexibility and Cognitive Transformation -- Expert Perceptual Skill -- Integrated Models of Expert "Macrocognition"--Conclusions -- 7 How Do Forecasters Get to Be Expert Forecasters? -- Expertise versus Intelligence -- Forecasting Competitions -- Recognition of the Need for Training to High Proficiency -- A General Proficiency Scale -- The Proficiency Scaling Process -- U.S. Navy Weather Forecasting Case Study -- U.S. Air Force Weather Forecasting Case Study -- Integration of the Findings -- The Forecasting Process -- The "Quick Size-Up"--Use of Computer Models -- Sensemaking -- Conclusion -- 8 What Does Research on Forecaster Knowledge Tell Us? -- Preparation -- Critical Decision Method -- Concept Mapping -- It Is Not All Just in the Head -- Conclusion -- 9 What Does Research on Forecaster Perception Tell Us? -- How and Why Diagrams and Visualizations Aid Sensemaking -- Display Design Principles: Some Work, Some Don't -- Interpretation of Weather Maps by Forecasters and Non-Forecasters -- Forecasters' Understanding of Weather Charts: Filling in the Gaps -- From Cues to Patterns to Dynamics -- Perceptual Operations during the Forecasting Process -- Conclusions -- 10 What Does Research on Forecaster Reasoning Tell Us? -- Mental Models -- Modeling Forecaster Reasoning -- Modeling Forecaster Macrocognition -- Generic versus Specific Models -- Flexecution in Forecasting -- Conclusions -- 11 Can a Machine Imitate the Human? -- Can Computers Be Made to Think Like Forecasters? -- The Structure of Forecasting KBSs -- So How Well Did the Expert Systems Perform? -- Peering into the Black Box -- Metamorphosis from Expert Systems to Intelligent Systems |
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| contents | About the Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Personal Acknowledgment -- 1 Introduction -- Motivation for the Study of Forecaster Reasoning -- The Data Overload Problem -- GOES Satellite Products -- NEXRAD Radar Products -- So, How Much Data Are There? -- Coping with Data Overload -- Some Key Terms -- Sources of Information Concerning Forecaster Cognition -- 2 What Is the Forecasting Workspace Like? -- Evolution of the Modern Workstation-based Workplace -- The Rise of the Workstation: AFOS, McIDAS, and PROFS -- How Many Displays? -- Visualization Design -- PRAVDA and Met.3D -- Met.3D -- Conclusions -- A Day in the Life: A Cautionary Tale about Work System Design -- 3 How Do People Come to Be Forecasters? -- Historical Background -- Forecasting Training within Meteorological Education -- College-Level Education -- The Interdependence of Meteorology Education and Forecaster Training -- Forecaster Training -- An Ethnographic Study of How People Get to Be Forecasters -- New Learning Venues -- COMET -- INNOVATIVE WEATHER -- Some Not-so-Formal Learning Venues -- Conclusions -- 4 How Do Forecasters Describe How They Reason? -- Teamwork -- Knowledge -- Perception and Recognition -- Conceptual Models -- General Forecasting Principles -- Reasoning Process -- Forecasters' Descriptions of Forecaster Reasoning -- Conclusions -- 5 How Well Do Forecasters (and Forecasts) Perform? -- Challenges in Measuring the Goodness of Forecasts -- "Goodness" and the Context of Use -- The Challenges of Measurement -- Forecast Verification Research -- How Good Are Those Probability Forecasts? -- Predictability versus Understandability -- Linear Models: Can the Human Forecaster Outperform a Simple Linear Model? -- Forecast Quality Is More Than Just "Hit Rate" -- A Cautionary Tale -- Conclusions -- 6 What Characterizes Expertise? |
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