Visually accurate multi-field weather visualization

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Creator Hansen, Charles D.
Other Author Riley, Kirk; Ebert, David; Levit, Jason
Title Visually accurate multi-field weather visualization
Date 2003
Description Weather visualization is a difficult problem because it comprises volumetric multi-field data and traditional surface-based approaches obscure details of the complex three-dimensional structure of cloud dynamics. Therefore, visually accurate volumetric multi-field visualization of storm scale and cloud scale data is needed to effectively and efficiently communicate vital information to weather forecasters, improving storm forecasting, atmospheric dynamics models, and weather spotter training. We have developed a new approach to multi-field visualization that uses field specific, physically-based opacity, transmission, and lighting calculations per-field for the accurate visualization of storm and cloud scale weather data. Our approach extends traditional transfer function approaches to multi-field data and to volumetric illumination and scattering.
Type Text
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
First Page 279
Last Page 286
DOI 10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250383
Subject Weather visualization; Multifield visualization; Volume rendering
Subject LCSH Computer graphics; Visualization; Rendering (Computer graphics); Meteorology -- Data processing
Language eng
Conference Title IEEE Visualization 2003; 19-24 Oct. 2003; Seattle, WA, USA
Bibliographic Citation Riley, K., Ebert, D., Hansen, C. D., & Levit, J. (2003). Visually accurate multi-field weather visualization. IEEE Visualization, 279-86.
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