Visual analytics for comparison of ocean model output with reference data: Detecting and analyzing geophysical processes using clustering ensembles

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1893-1902

  Kothur, Patrick ^a   Sips, Mike ^a   Dobslaw, Henryk ^a   Dransch, Doris ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cluster ensembles; geospatial time series; model assessment; Ocean modeling; visual analytics; visual comparison

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ENSEMBLES; GEO-SPATIAL; MODEL ASSESSMENT; OCEAN MODEL; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUAL COMPARISON;

EID: 84910026094     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346751     Document Type: Article

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