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| VACET, ESG Partner for Climate Tools that Offer New Insight into IPCC Data | ||||
| The SciDAC Visualization and Analytic Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET) is working to help bring advanced visualization technology to the climate modeling and analysis community through a partnership with the Earth Systems Grid (ESG). | ||||
| VACET worked closely with ESG during the second half of 2009 to prepare new tools, technologies, and material for presentation at the December 2009 climate meeting in Copenhagen. | ||||
| Prior to working with VACET, the ESG visualization/analysis tool Climate Data Analysis Toolkit (CDAT) consisted of only one- and two-dimensional charting/plotting tools. VACET’s role has been to roll out new three- and four-dimensional visualization technologies that are now included in the CDAT release. This effort is beginning to bear fruit, with the first set of objectives: 3D slicing, isocontouring, multiple linked 3D views, and 3D moviemaking. | ||||
| One image, a frame from the complete video which was shown in the WCRP booth at the climate meeting in Copenhagen, demonstrates the use of the visualization to communicate an important insight. The insight from this example is that the outer layer of the atmosphere is cooling while the lower layer is warming. | ||||
| The other activity conducted in the process of developing the video was demonstrating that the visualization could be realized in real time while transferring massive amounts of data. The real-time visualization demonstration was a finalist in the Supercomputing 2009 Bandwidth Challenge, held in November 2009. The team was recognized for demonstrating the transfer of 10 TB of climate data and producing the visualization in real time on the receiving end. |
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| Further Information VACET http://www.scidac.gov/viz/VACET.html ESG http://www.scidac.gov/compsci/ESG.html |
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| Published by IOP Publishing in association with Argonne National Laboratory, for the US Department of Energy, Office of Science. Copyright © 2010 by IOP. | ||||
