Simulating the dynamics of auroral phenomena

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-59

  Baranoski, Gladimir V G ^a   Wan, Justin ^a   Rokne, Jon G ^b   Bell, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Natural phenomena; Plasma phenomena; Rendering

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; NATURAL PHENOMENA; PLASMA PHENOMENA; RENDERING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; VISUALIZATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33745632239     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 07300301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1037957.1037960     Document Type: Article

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