Application of uncertainty visualization methods to meteorological trajectories

Earth Science Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-126

  Boller, Ryan A ^a   Braun, Scott A ^a   Miles, Jadrian ^b   Laidlaw, David H ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow visualization; Meteorological visualization techniques; Multi field visualization; Time varying data; Uncertainty visualization

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR; TRAJECTORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77953913497     PISSN: 18650473     EISSN: 18650481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12145-010-0052-5     Document Type: Article

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