Visual Interface of Weather Data of Pakistan

Abstract

The system visualization of weather data of Pakistan has been developed to help users to visualize historical temporal weather data in their respective region. This system is designed with the goal to supplement the productivity of already available website of Pakistan meteorological department. The system is flexible enough to visualize current data also, it presents four weather scenarios to visualize weather data: (1) Single place single point in time weather visualization (2) Multi places single points in time weather visualization (3) Single place multi points in time weather visualization (4) Multi places multi points in time weather visualization. The weather data which is visualized is available from 1980 to 2010 from different weather stations of Pakistan, maintained by the Pakistan Meteorological Department. We designed such a system that can present data in user friendly/ comprehensible graphical formats; maps, graphs, attractive icon based and interactive menu.