The diagram explains the process of collecting information from the Australia Bureau of Meteorology to produce reliable weather forecasts.
Overall, There are four steps in the diagram start with collecting information, analyzing data, preparing information and publishing the result of weather forecasts by three media.
In the first and second stages, there are three ways of collecting data and three ways of analyzing it. Firstly, incoming information from satellites can be directly presented for analysis as a satellite photo or, through passing the collected data to radar stations, as a radar screen or synoptic chart. Secondly, the same information may immediately be collected by radar stations and presented to be analyzed on a radar screen or synoptic chart. Lastly, a drifting buoy can only provide information in the form of synoptic charts.
At the next stage of the process, all of the analyzed and forecasted weather information is prepared on a digital computer. Finally, it is published on TV (presented by forecasters), on the radio, or as a recorded telephone announcement.