A Computer-Generated -Dimensional” Graphic Display for Weather Radar Data
James H. Boardman, Paul L. Smith · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1974
The use of a minicomputer to generate “four-dimensional” graphic displays of quantitative weather radar data by employing three-dimensional graphic techniques is described. The time dimension is added by using a video disc recorder to record and play back a time series of the displays. These displays succeed in portraying the radar reflectivity structure of individual storms or storm cells in a meaningful way.