A dialogue‐based weather forecast: adapting language to end‐users to improve communication

Abstract

Is fine weather actually fine weather to everyone? Professional end–users are likely to benefit from the use of technical language when discussing meteorology, whereas non–experts are likely to find everyday language more suited to their needs. To reduce the number of possible interpretations of everyday language when used to describe weather, its usage should be co– developed with end–users and combined with graphical/numerical information.

Toward valuable weather and sea-ice services for the marine Arctic: exploring user–producer interfaces of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute

“…It is in the context of the above issues where a more profound inclusion of operational staff might be beneficial to bridge various user-producer gaps. Operational forecasters are already increasingly moving into roles as advisors for specific stakeholders or in the case of extreme metocean conditions (Nilsen & Vollset, 2016;Sivle & Aamodt, 2019). Moreover, and in line with the call for an 'inverted', decision-driven (as opposed to product-driven) approach to catering for WWIC user needs (Buontempo et al, 2014), research projects could benefit from involving operational forecasters and make use of their tangible knowledge and connections with endusers.…”