Publications
The following scientific publications are discussing aspects of Met.3D or are using Met.3D to demonstrate new visualization techniques.
Note that the list is likely out of date - please refer to our online documentation for an up-to-date list of publications.
Of course, if you have used Met.3D for a publication please let us know so we can add your paper to the list!
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Interactive 3D Visual Analysis of Atmospheric Fronts
Kern, M., Hewson, T., Schäfler, A., Westermann, R., and Rautenhaus, M., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2018), doi:10.1109/TVCG.2018.2864806, 2018
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Visual Analysis of the Temporal Evolution of Ensemble Forecast Sensitivities
Kumpf, A., Rautenhaus, M., Riemer, M., and Westermann, R., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2018), doi:10.1109/TVCG.2018.2864901, 2018
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Robust Detection and Visualization of Jet-stream Core Lines in Atmospheric Flow
Kern, M., Hewson, T., Sadlo, F., Westermann, R., and Rautenhaus, M., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2017), doi:10.1109/TVCG.2017.2743989, 2017
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Visualizing Confidence in Cluster-based Ensemble Weather Forecast Analyses
Kumpf, A., Tost, B., Baumgart, M., Riemer, M., Westermann, R., and Rautenhaus, M., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2017), doi:10.1109/TVCG.2017.2745178, 2017
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Time-hierarchical Clustering and Visualization of Weather Forecast Ensembles
Ferstl, F., Kanzler, M., Rautenhaus, M., and Westermann, R., IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(1), 831-840, doi:10.1109/tvcg.2016.2598868, 2017
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Three-dimensional visualization of ensemble weather forecasts – Part 1: The visualization tool Met.3D (version 1.0)
Rautenhaus, M., Kern, M., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R., Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 2329-2353, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-2329-2015, 2015.
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Three-dimensional visualization of ensemble weather forecasts – Part 2: Forecasting warm conveyor belt situations for aircraft-based field campaigns
Rautenhaus, M., Grams, C.G., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R., Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 2355-2377, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-2355-2015, 2015.
Presentations
An incomplete list of publicly available presentations on Met.3D:
- Met.3D: Interactive 3D visualization for rapid exploration of atmospheric ensemble simulation data (Recording), Using ECMWF’s Forecasts (UEF2022), 7-10 June 2022, Reading, UK.
- Is it time for interactivity and 3D? New approaches to analysing NWP data for observational campaigns using 3D and ensemble visualization, Workshop on observational campaigns for better weather forecasts, 10-13 June 2019, ECMWF, Reading, UK.
- Using Met3D at ECMWF, 29th European Working Group on Operational Meteorological Workstations (EGOWS), 15-17 October 2018, ECMWF, Reading, UK
- Ensemble and 3D visualization with Met.3D – recent research and software updates, 16th Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems (MOS), 1-3 March 2017, ECWMF, Reading, UK.
- Interactive 3D visualization of ECMWF ensemble weather predictions, Visualisation in Meteorology week 2015, 28 September - 2 October 2015, ECMWF, Reading, UK.