Tools for Meteorological Data Visualization
Isabel Harb Manssour · 1996
Weather forecast centers usually deal with a great volume of complex multivariate data, which usually have to be interpreted within short time. Tools that use scientific visualization techniques can be a great help providing support for both daily forecasting and meteorological research. This work presents a collection of tools designed primarily to aid the daily tasks of meteorologists from the 8 Meteorological District, in the South of Brazil. The tasks of meteorologists and the classes of application data were observed to define tools requirements. System architecture and implementation follow a tool-oriented approach and the object-oriented programming paradigm, respectively. Current implementation provides mapping tools, that generate contour plots, icons maps, and a variety of graphs; recording tools, that allow to save and load images generated by the system; and a query tool, to read variables' values at selected meteorological stations.