Somewhere over the rainbow: How to make effective use of colors in meteorological visualizations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 203-216

  Stauffer, Reto ^a   Mayr, Georg J ^a   Dabernig, Markus ^a   Zeileis, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CODES; COLOR VISION; LUMINANCE; VISUALIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; COLOR MODELING; COLOR PALETTE; COLOR SPACE; HUMAN COLOR VISION; PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS; PERCEPTUAL PROPERTIES; RED GREEN BLUES;

COLOR;

EID: 84929457864     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00155.1     Document Type: Article

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