Prognostic chart the correct location. By 1957, it was proposed when isobars or height lines at the pressure level in the atmosphere were being verified, that the degree of persistence should be considered so as to avoid getting bad forecasts for slow moving systems too much credit. Prognostic chart A prognostic chart is a map displaying the likely weather forecast for a future time. Such charts generated by atmospheric models as output from numerical weather prediction and contain a variety of information such as temperature, wind, precipitation and weather fronts. They can also indicate derived atmospheric fields such as vorticity, stability indices,
Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection intersects the unit sphere in exactly two points, one of which is on the lower hemisphere "z" ≤ 0. (Horizontal lines intersect the equator "z" = 0 in two antipodal points. It is understood that antipodal points on the equator represent a single line. See quotient topology.) Hence the directions in three-dimensional space correspond (almost perfectly) to points on the lower hemisphere. The hemisphere can then be plotted as a disk of radius using the Lambert azimuthal projection. Thus the Lambert azimuthal projection lets us plot directions as points in a disk. Due to the equal-area property of the projection,