Exploration of climate data using interactive visualization

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 667-679

  Ladstädter, Florian ^a   Steiner, Andrea K ^a   Lackner, Bettina C ^a   Pirscher, Barbara ^a   Kirchengast, Gottfried ^a   Kehrer, Johannes ^b   Hauser, Helwig ^b   Muigg, Philipp ^c   Doleisch, Helmut ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SimVis GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA CHARACTERISTICS; DATA SETS; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; INTERACTIVE BROWSING; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LARGE DATASETS; PARAMETER SPACES; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; VISUAL EXPLORATION;

DATA REDUCTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; SATELLITE DATA; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77953498273     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1374.1     Document Type: Article

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