Managing and servicing physical oceanographic data at a NASA Distributed Active Archive Center

Moroni, David; Armstrong, E. M.; Tsontos, Vardis; Hausman, Jessica; Jiang, Yibo

doi:10.1109/oceans.2016.7761500

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“…For instance, Fetchclimate [30] and the USGS (United States Geological Survey) National Climate Change Viewer (UCCV) [31] provide solutions for environment information retrieval and mapping. Similar online visualization applications have also been applied to other geoscience disciplines such as hydrology [32][33][34], oceanography [35], and polar [20,29], etc. Open source packages, such as Cesium [36] or NASA's new WebWorldWind [37], are also exploited to construct web-based environmental applications [38,39].…”

Section: Popular Visualization Platforms For Climate Researchmentioning

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Web-Scale Multidimensional Visualization of Big Spatial Data to Support Earth Sciences—A Case Study with Visualizing Climate Simulation Data

Wang

2017

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Abstract:The world is undergoing rapid changes in its climate, environment, and ecosystems due to increasing population growth, urbanization, and industrialization. Numerical simulation is becoming an important vehicle to enhance the understanding of these changes and their impacts, with regional and global simulation models producing vast amounts of data. Comprehending these multidimensional data and fostering collaborative scientific discovery requires the development of new visualization techniques. In this paper, we present a cyberinfrastructure solution-PolarGlobe-that enables comprehensive analysis and collaboration. PolarGlobe is implemented upon an emerging web graphics library, WebGL, and an open source virtual globe system Cesium, which has the ability to map spatial data onto a virtual Earth. We have also integrated volume rendering techniques, value and spatial filters, and vertical profile visualization to improve rendered images and support a comprehensive exploration of multi-dimensional spatial data. In this study, the climate simulation dataset produced by the extended polar version of the well-known Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is used to test the proposed techniques. PolarGlobe is also easily extendable to enable data visualization for other Earth Science domains, such as oceanography, weather, or geology.

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Section: Popular Visualization Platforms For Climate Researchmentioning

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Web-Scale Multidimensional Visualization of Big Spatial Data to Support Earth Sciences—A Case Study with Visualizing Climate Simulation Data

Wang

2017

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Managing and servicing physical oceanographic data at a NASA Distributed Active Archive Center

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Web-Scale Multidimensional Visualization of Big Spatial Data to Support Earth Sciences—A Case Study with Visualizing Climate Simulation Data

Web-Scale Multidimensional Visualization of Big Spatial Data to Support Earth Sciences—A Case Study with Visualizing Climate Simulation Data

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