A professor of meteorology and a professor of music technology at Penn State had an idea: turning environmental data into music to better understand storms, like hurricanes. They think sonifying satellite videos like those found in weather reports will help people learn how extreme storms evolve. Sonification offers more benefits than traditional data visualization, one being accessibility. Sound is also processed more quickly and more viscerally than visuals.
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