You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The below shows how the Australian Bureau of Meterorology collets up-to-the-minute information on the weather in order to produce reliable forecasts. Write a report for a university lecturer decribing the information shown below. You should write at least 150 words.

The figure illustrates the

process

used by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to forecast the

weather

. There are four stages in the

process

, beginning with the collection of

information

about the

weather

.

This

information

is

then

analysed, prepared for presentation, and

finally

broadcast to the public. Looking at the first and second stages of the

process

, there are three ways of collecting

weather

data and three ways of analysing it.

Firstly

, incoming

information

can be received by satellite and presented for analysis as a satellite photo. The same data can

also

be passed to a

radar

station and presented on a

radar

screen or synoptic chart.

Secondly

, incoming

information

may be collected directly by

radar

and analysed on a

radar

screen or synoptic chart.

Finally

, drifting buoys

also

receive data which can be shown on a synoptic chart.

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the third stage of the

process

, the

weather

broadcast is prepared on computers.

Finally

, it is delivered to the public on television, on the radio, or as a recorded telephone announcement.