Information visualization in climate research

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 298-305

  Tominski, Christian ^a   Donges, Jonathan F ^b,c   Nocke, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate Networks; Climate Research; Geo Visualization; Graph Visualization; Information Visualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; GAINING INSIGHTS; GEO-VISUALIZATION; GRAPH VISUALIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS DATASETS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION TOOL; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; STATE FEEDBACK; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 80053042755     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2011.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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