Weather visualizations for the Olympics:
Weather over the northern Olympic venue sites
You can look at RAMS output at two km resolution computed for July 11,
1996. The example is accompanied with an in-line image. Click on the image
to see a full-size 24-bit image of the same data. There is also an MPEG
animation.
Output at two km resolution over northern Georgia, southeastern Tennessee
and southwestern North Carolina showing the region around the northern
venue sites, which are marked with three-dimensional icons. Cloud water
density is shown as white isosurfaces with surface heat index shown as
continuous pseudo-color terrain. Surface winds are shown with vector arrows,
pseudo-colored by speed. Cloud reflectivity is shown as cyan isosurfaces,
corresponding to the formation of rain storms. A 55-frame
MPEG animation shows the formation of orographically influenced clouds
over the southern Appalachian mountains in the late afternoon and early
evening as well as the beginning of a thunderstorm.
Now you can look at the next set of examples.
You can see additional images and
learn more about this project, and the visualization work being done.
You can learn more the regional weather model and the parallelized
implementation on an IBM SP2.
lloydt@watson.ibm.com
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