Abstract Scientists at NOAA are testing a new tool that allows forecasters to communicate estimated probabilities of severe hazards (tornadoes, wind, and hail) as part the Forecasting Continuum Environmental Threats (FACETs) framework. In this study, we employ embedded systems theory (EST)—a communication framework analyzes small group workplace practices products group, organizational, local d...

The advantages of using Doppler weather radar to track and forecast mesoscale severe weather events are widely known to both meteorologists and the public. With the use of Doppler radar, meteorologists can provide better information to the public, ultimately saving lives and property, by remotely observing the internal structure of thunderstorms at high resolution. Despite its highly advanced c...

Given that the sun continues to shine as it does now, the physicists can tell us that further increases of greenhouse gases will cause the Earth's atmosphere to become warmer, a strong and most probably correct prediction. Meteorologists and other atmospheric scientists-especially those with access to global climate models-can predict the regional structure of the climate that should result, in...

Meteorology is a global endeavor consuming vast resources for keeping an eye on the entire world. Thereby it not only detects the present state of the atmosphere, but also envisions its possible futures. Thus, the knowledge instruments of meteorology are permanent remote sensing, worldwide nets of weather stations, world data archives, and global circulation models computing weather and climate...

The oceans of the Earth work in concert with the atmosphere to control and regulate the environment. Fed by the sun, the interaction of land, ocean, and atmosphere produces the phenomenon of weather and climate. Only in the past half-century meteorologists have begun to understand weather patterns well enough to produce relatively accurate, although limited, forecasts of future weather patterns...

In this paper we present the results of a joint research project between visualization researchers and experts on meteorology for the purpose of fast and interactive visual analysis of severe weather conditions. The starting situation was, that for severe weather forecasting data from multiple sources each are visualized separately. 3D characteristics of atmospheric data are displayed usually i...

3D Doppler Radar is a key forecasting tool for severe weather storms and automatic tracking of these deformable objects is of great interest to meteorologists. Currently, we use the notion of a 3D ellipsoid to represent the uncertainty of a storm’s 3D center in the Doppler precipitation data and have described elsewhere an algebra for its use in storm tracking. In this paper, we describe how we...