1. Visualisation in climate modelling
Andy Heaps
JCSR Visualisation User Needs Workshop – Manchester 19/10/2004

2. 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…

3. Need to reduce the number of packages
IDL, Matlab
Documentation
The need for local documentation
Basic IDL guide for making meteorology plots

4. Plots used in meteorology

5. Going 3D…

6. Going 3D… part 2
Thomas Harris – real time cloud rendering

7. Real-time graphics with a climate model
Being used by schools now.
Open University short course module starting next February.

10. Movie of precipitation