Visualizing meteorological data for a lay audience

Author

Schröder, Florian

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Comput. Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

1993

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

14

Abstract

The Triton system for visualizing meteorological data is discussed. Triton supports visualization of satellite data showing weather development in the past, scalar data such as temperature, snow height, or ozone concentration, vector data such as wind direction and strength, data related to cloud formations, contextual information such as geographical data, and additional information. A television weather forecast must present a lot of this information in a very short time, possibly resulting in information overload. Triton uses intuitive visualization to help viewers understand the information.<>

Keywords

data visualisation; geophysics computing; meteorology; Triton system; cloud formations; contextual information; geographical data; intuitive visualization; lay audience; meteorological data; ozone concentration; satellite data; scalar data; snow height; television weather forecast; temperature; vector data; weather development; wind direction; Clouds; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Meteorology; Satellite broadcasting; Snow; Storms; TV broadcasting; Temperature; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.232094

Filename

232094