An atmospheric visual analysis and exploration system

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1157-1164

  Song, Yuyan ^b   Ye, Jing ^c   Svakhine, Nikolai ^b   Lasher Trapp, Sonia ^b   Baldwin, Mike ^b   Ebert, David S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Glyph rendering; Grid structures; Transfer function; Volume rendering; Volume visualization; Warm rain entrainment process; Weather visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLYPH RENDERING; GRID STRUCTURES; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION; WARM RAIN ENTRAINMENT PROCESS; WEATHER VISUALIZATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845612764     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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