Anais do IX SIBGRAPI'96 (1996), 63-70
Tools for Meteorological Data Visualization
Isabel Harb Manssour, Carla Maria Dal Sasso Freitas e Dalcídio Moraes Claúdio
UFRGS-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Instituto de Informática,
Curso de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação - CPGCC
manssour@inf.ufrgs.br
- Abstract:
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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
8th 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.
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