Session 6B Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology—Part I

Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs:
Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, GA; J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies, 201 David L. Boren Blvd, Norman, OK and Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS, Office of Central Processing, Silver Spring, MD

With increasing computing power, more accurate and affordable weather monitoring instruments, and progress in remote sensing technology, the amount and frequency of meteorological, climatological, and related data collected every day grows continuously. Consequently, data analysis becomes a time-consuming and oftentimes difficult task. This is also due to the complexity of the datasets, which are usually spatially dependent, time varying, multivariate, or even multimodal. Adequate visualization and interaction techniques can help to explore such large and heterogeneous datasets. Visualization enables researchers to find interesting features, to detect spatial, temporal, or multivariate relationships, or to evaluate uncertainties in the data. This facilitates the understanding of atmospheric processes or mutual feedbacks between Earth system components. At the same time, visualization can be used to communicate important findings to stakeholders or the general public. For this session, we welcome contributions from research fields—such as scientific visualization, information visualization, or visual analytics—that are applicable to datasets from climatology, meteorology, or related disciplines.

Papers:
3:00 PM
6B.1
Designing an Augmented Reality App to Communicate and Engage Users in Real-Time Satellite Data
Peter Dorofy, Institute for Earth Observations, Palmyra, NJ; and J. Moore, E. Wiederhold, V. Casasanto, B. J. Billings, and J. Kenisky
3:30 PM
6B.3
Shouldn't This Be Easy? NOAA Open Source Software For Creating High Quality Satellite Images
David Hoese, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI; and K. Strabala
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