Interactive 3D Visual Analysis of Atmospheric Fronts

Atmospheric fronts play a central role in meteorology, as the boundaries between different air masses and as fundamental features of extra-tropical cyclones. They appear in numerous conceptual model depictions of extra-tropical weather systems. Conceptually, fronts are three-dimensional surfaces in...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - (2018) vom: 20. Aug.
1. Verfasser: Kern, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hewson, Tim, Schafler, Andreas, Westermann, Rudiger, Rautenhaus, Marc
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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