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@Article{McCaslin:2000:VDN,
  author =       "Paula T. McCaslin and Philip A. McDonald and Edward J.
                 Szoke",
  title =        "{$3$D} visualization development at {NOAA} forecast
                 systems laboratory",
  journal =      j-COMP-GRAPHICS,
  volume =       "34",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "41--44",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "2000",
  CODEN =        "CGRADI, CPGPBZ",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/604446.604449",
  ISSN =         "0097-8930",
  bibdate =      "Wed Oct 7 09:18:19 MDT 2009",
  bibsource =    "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/siggraph2000.bib",
  abstract =     "Visualization transforms numeric data into a visual
                 form that enables users to conceptualize and understand
                 the information. Three-dimensional (3D) visualization
                 is the ability to display, analyze, manipulate and
                 interact with 3D data in 3 space. New visualization
                 tools, 3D in nature, are being designed to display
                 meteorological datasets for use in operational
                 forecasting. Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) has been
                 supporting the development of 3D visualization software
                 and applications since 1990. Until recently, the
                 emphasis has been on research application. Using
                 commercial visualization software called the
                 Application Visualization System (AVS5), both analysis
                 and forecast 3D data were displayed and investigated.
                 The software was used for visual analysis and scanning
                 of data for the presence of desired features. For
                 example, plotting of the station observations with
                 forecast-generated data allows visual comparison of the
                 two. Figure 1 shows 3D images of weather parameters
                 from the Local Analysis and Prediction System (LAPS)
                 analysis output, which is created automatically on an
                 hourly basis for the World Wide Web. Operational
                 meteorologists who issue forecasts and warnings for the
                 nation from the various Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs;
                 see http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrhq/nwspage.html for a
                 display of WFOs across the nation) currently utilize
                 two-dimensional displays of analyses and numerical
                 model output, combined with images from satellites and
                 radar. They do this on a system developed at FSL call
                 the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
                 (AWIPS). Visualization has been used successfully in
                 the research context for some time. The next logical
                 step was to determine if 3D visualization can offer
                 added value in an operational setting. This required
                 developing a 3D visualization workstation application,
                 conducting a forecast exercise using the system and
                 evaluating feedback from the exercise. An experimental
                 workstation application, Display 3D (D3D), was
                 developed at FSL to investigate the complexities and 3D
                 structure of atmospheric parameters, and potential
                 value added of 3D displays in an operational forecast
                 setting. The D3D system was designed to be used with
                 the two-dimensional AWIPS operational system known as
                 D2D.The scope of this article covers the development of
                 the D3D application, plus a brief description of the
                 D3D real-time exercise (RT98).",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "Computer Graphics",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J166",
}

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