Distributed Visualization and Virtual Environments for Meteorology and Oceanography

Abstract

My long term goal is to contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of METOC and ocean-atmosphere interactions. Of particular interest to me are analytical visualization systems which can show METOC models and measured data simultaneously so that a user can explore the complex physical dynamics. My objective is to develop a distributed visualization and virtual environment for METOC. This system would have readers for many ocean model outputs (e.g., NLOM, POM, WAM, etc.), for many meteorology model outputs (COAMPS, NOGAPS/NORAPS, etc.), and for measured data (CTDs, satellite data, scattered data, etc.).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA550992

Entities

People

  • Robert Moorhead

Organizations

  • Mississippi State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chesapeake Bay
  • Computational Processes
  • Computational Science
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Meteorology
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Scripting Languages
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space