Visualisation in climate modelling Andy Heaps JCSR Visualisation User Needs Workshop – Manchester 19/10/2004
Reinventing the wheel Home grown packages zxplot, fplot, qplot, xqplot, jplot - Reading based packages uplot - Cambridge Free software ferret, grads, VCS (now CDAT), vis5d, R, gnuplot, grace Commercial IDL, Matlab, PVWAVE, Uniras, Mathematica, Splus NCAR graphics Meteorological Institute packages Wave (UKMO) – PVWAVE based Metview (ECMWF) - Magics based And so on…
Need to reduce the number of packages IDL, Matlab Documentation The need for local documentation Basic IDL guide for making meteorology plots
Plots used in meteorology
Going 3D…
Going 3D… part 2 Thomas Harris – real time cloud rendering
Real-time graphics with a climate model http://www.climateprediction.net Being used by schools now. Open University short course module starting next February.
Movie of precipitation