Visualisation in climate modelling Andy Heaps JCSR Visualisation
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Visualisation in climate modelling Andy Heaps JCSR Visualisation User Needs Workshop – Manchester 19/10/2004 NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
Reinventing the wheel Home grown packages zxplot, fplot, qplot, xqplot, jplot - Reading based packages uplot - Cambridge Free software ferret, grads, VCS (now CDAT), vis 5 d, R, gnuplot, grace Commercial IDL, Matlab, PVWAVE, Uniras, Mathematica, Splus NCAR graphics Meteorological Institute packages Wave (UKMO) – PVWAVE based Metview (ECMWF) - Magics based And so on… NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
Need to reduce the number of packages IDL, Matlab Documentation The need for local documentation Basic IDL guide for making meteorology plots NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
Plots used in meteorology NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
Going 3 D… NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
Going 3 D… part 2 Thomas Harris – real time cloud rendering NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
Real-time graphics with a climate model http: //www. climateprediction. net Being used by schools now. Open University short course module starting next February. NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
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Movie of precipitation NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
