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Visually Accurate Multi-Field Weather Visualization

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Charles Hansen,

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VIS '03: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Visualization 2003 (VIS'03)

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https://doi.org/10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250383

Published: 22 October 2003 Publication History

Abstract

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.

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