[Grad-postdoc-assn] ASP seminar next Monday 11am

[Yumin Moon]

This is a reminder for the ASP seminar next Monday with Brian Mapes. 
It will be at the Mesa Lab seminar room.



Visualization of the weather-climate connection

Brian Mapes, Professor
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
RSMAS, University of Miami
May 5th, 2014 Monday 11 am

Data visualization is an appealing and fun craft. If done well, it can 
support realism in scientific reasoning, for example by layering the 
texture of weather and useful indicators of uncertainty (such as an 
ensemble of different data products) onto the smooth abstractions of 
climate statistics. These days, large time-aggregated archives of many 
reanalysis and satellite-observational datasets are available via 
OpenDAP. UCAR/Unidata’s free Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) and related 
softwares are in good shape to take advantage of these, obviating the 
need for downloading and organizing dataset collections. There is just 
the small matter of software complexity to contend with. I will show a 
few pretty (and scientific) results, and describe my efforts to 
salvage lasting value from much obsessive toil behind the scenes by 
assembling a newbie-friendly self-updating IDV Plugin, pointing to an 
ever-improving Web-hosted collection of templates and other user 
resources. I am trying to make it easier to gain the IDV’s great 
strength — rich, multi-source data integrations — for myself and my 
students, and for others.