Typology of Meteorological Weather Forecast Maps Printed in World Newspapers

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the results of the analysis of more than 150 different printed newspaper weather forecasting maps, representing 91 global, national, regional and local daily news periodicals from 33 countries in 4 continents. The classification attention focused both on the character of the localizing background layer of the analysed maps as well as on the meteorological thematic layer. The results identify 12 types of background localizing maps and 47 used types of presentation of meteorological forecast information, only 19 of which were used repeatedly in more than one newspaper. All the findings were documented on comparable cartographic models. Conclusions suitable for practical applications are demonstrated in the discussion.

KEYWORDS:

• Newspapers
• weather forecast map
• background map typology
• meteorological information map typology

Notes on contributor

Jaromir Kolejka studied Geography at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkyne University in Brno, Czech Republic. He passed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Geography, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno in 1984. Since 1999, he has worked at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. His wide range of interests includes physical geography, cultural studies, GIS and cartography.

ORCID

Jaromir Kolejka http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3927-4060

Hana Svobodova http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0694-6975

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic under Grant IAA300860903 Destiny of Czech post-industrial landscape.