Application of Visual Analytics to Ocean Science: Case Studies

Author

Matsuoka, Daisuke ; Araki, Fumiaki ; Yamashita, Yumi

Author_Institution

Earth Simulator Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Sci. & Technol., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

4-7 March 2014

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

341

Abstract

High resolution OGCM (Ocean General Circulation Model) reproduces various types of complex structures defined by multivariable such as warm/cold current or high/low density water mass. In order to understand such characteristic features, it is necessary to visualize and explore multivariable dataset. Therefore, we applied visual analytics, especially multi-dimensional transfer function and visual feature exploration, to represent characteristic ocean structures. Our case studies show that visual analytics is effective for understanding ocean simulation dataset.

Keywords

data visualisation; feature extraction; geophysics computing; oceanography; characteristic ocean structure representation; complex structures; high resolution OGCM; multidimensional transfer function; multivariable dataset exploration; multivariable dataset visualization; ocean general circulation model; ocean science; ocean simulation dataset; visual analytics; visual feature exploration; Data visualization; Earth; Feature extraction; Ocean temperature; Transfer functions; Visualization; Multi-dimensional transfer function; feature extraction; ocean circulation; water mass;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2014 IEEE Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PacificVis.2014.64

Filename

6787194