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Web Projects and Trial Webpage Development WX301 Spring 2008

Web Projects and Trial Webpage Development WX301 Spring 2008. Weather Briefings Require Multiple Web Sites. Unfortunately not all desired information is at any one web site. Using favorite web site lists can result in long lists of favorites.

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Web Projects and Trial Webpage Development WX301 Spring 2008

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  1. Web ProjectsandTrial Webpage DevelopmentWX301 Spring 2008

  2. Weather Briefings Require Multiple Web Sites • Unfortunately not all desired information is at any one web site. • Using favorite web site lists can result in long lists of favorites.

  3. Web Sites Can Be Used to Organize Weather Data Access • Many organizations utilize internal web sites to organize frequently-accessed web links. • Last year, students were assigned a web development project as an experiment. • The experiment was quite successful. Students found that the project was relatively easy and fun.

  4. Examples of Web Projects from WX352 Summer B • Igor Vilk • Gloria Coba

  5. Web Page Programming <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1"> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="300"> <title>OpWx - Real Time Wx Data</title> <script> <!-- function openWindow(url, w, h) { var options = "width=" + w + ",height=" + h + ","; options += "resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,"; options += "menubar=no,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no"; var newWin = window.open(url, "_blank" , options); newWin.focus(); } //--> • Web page is specified by html code. Etc., etc. etc.

  6. Programs have been developed to write the html code for you • Microsoft FrontPage software used last summer to develop the web pages. • ERAU no longer has a license for FrontPage. • Mozilla Composer is available for free and can be used for this project.

  7. Project Definition • Each WX301 student will develop a web page that can be used to provide a special-purpose weather briefing to someone having to make a weather-related decision. • Possible users: pilot planning trip, emergency manager (e.g. hurricanes, severe TS, wildland fires); ship captain; water resource manager; skier, surfer, or other outdoor recreation; farmer concerned about freezing wx; tornado or hurricane chaser; etc. • Your web site will bring together all the different links needed to make the briefing.

  8. Web Project • The project should be easy to use. • The project should be comprehensive in having all the links needed to make a weather briefing for the decision maker. • The project should be artistically pleasing. • It must include • A table (or you can use frames—which I cannot help you with!) • Some pictures • At least 15 or more links to wx info—as many as you need to describe the current weather situation from a variety of perspectives, then present forecast weather conditions that can be expected by the special-purpose user. • All briefing pages should include info about the basic weather picture, but then branch off into more specific links: e.g. a briefing for a pilot must include links to info on aviation weather hazards like IFR, icing, turbulence etc. whereas a briefing for a surfer needs to include coastal winds and wave height forecasts.

  9. Approach for Weather Briefing Past and current weather: • Start out with the overall picture: surface analysis showing general map features. • Possibly weather depiction chart or maps highlighting where bad or significant weather is. • Upper air charts showing the overall patterns, jet stream configuration (e.g. 250 mb chart), possible short waves (e.g. 500 mb height and vorticity chart), low-level moisture/temperature advection (850 mb chart). • Radars showing current precipitation. • Satellite showing current cloud patterns.

  10. Approach for Wx Briefing (Cont’d) Future/Special Purpose Wx Products (Links to charts/products specific to the intended receiver of the briefing) • For example, pilots need forecasts (take-off, en route, landing), of winds, aviation weather hazards, precipitation etc. for their route. • A surfer needs a forecast of general weather conditions at the beach, winds, faraway storms that might generate waves, wave height and direction forecasts for their coastline etc.

  11. Approach for Wx Briefing (Cont’d) • Farmers might need to know about rain, detailed temperature forecasts, especially for freezing weather, possibility of severe weather (like large hail). • Firefighters need to know about fire weather: humidity, winds, fuel conditions. • Transportation agencies need to know about fog, storm conditions, freezing rain, snow. Etc. etc. etc.!

  12. Tips • Don’t use info from only one source like the Weather Channel or ADDS. • My preference is for government data sources rather than commercial weather companies who usually just take government info and repackage it. • Be creative. Put yourself in the place of your intended user, and ask yourself, what would you want/need to know about the weather to make critical decisions?

  13. Web Page Creation • Today, in preparation for the project we will create a basic webpage in class using Mozilla Composer. (See the instructions in Blackboard for using Composer). • The final project will be due the Thursday after Spring Break (March 27). • You can use Composer or any other html editor to produce your briefing page.

  14. Home Computer Mozilla Software • Mozilla 1.7.12 is available for free for Windows computers at http://www.mozilla.org/ • You may download Mozilla to your home computer. • Composer is a part of Mozilla. • Web project is to be developed at home (or on WX lab computers) and handed in online Thursday, March 27. • Note: Web pages are not like an MS Word document or Powerpoint presentation where everything is integrated into one file. It is composed of an html file containing links and calls to images. You must submit both the html files and any image files • Project is worth 20% of course grade.

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