TY - GEN
T1 - Interactive poster
T2 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, VAST'08
AU - Andrysco, Nathan
AU - Beneš, Bedřich
AU - Gurney, Kevin
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Climate Change has emerged as one of the grand global challenges facing humanity. The dominant anthropogenic greenhouse gas that seems to be contributing to the climate change problem, carbon dioxide (CO2), has a complex cycle through the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere. The combustion of fossil fuels (power production, transportation, etc.) remains the largest source of anthropogenic CO2 to the Earth's atmosphere. Up until very recently, the quantification of fossil fuel CO2 was understood only at coarse space and time scales. A recent research effort has greatly improved this space/time quantification resulting in source data at a resolution of less than 10 km2/hr at the surface of North America. By providing visual tools to examine this new, high resolution CO2 data, we can better understand the way that CO2 is transmitted within the atmosphere and how it is exchanged with other components of the Earth System. We have developed interactive visual analytic tools, which allows for easy data manipulation, analysis, and extraction. The visualization system is aimed for a wide range of users which include researchers and political leaders. The goal is to help assist these people in analyzing data and enabling new policy options in mitigation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the U.S.
AB - Climate Change has emerged as one of the grand global challenges facing humanity. The dominant anthropogenic greenhouse gas that seems to be contributing to the climate change problem, carbon dioxide (CO2), has a complex cycle through the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere. The combustion of fossil fuels (power production, transportation, etc.) remains the largest source of anthropogenic CO2 to the Earth's atmosphere. Up until very recently, the quantification of fossil fuel CO2 was understood only at coarse space and time scales. A recent research effort has greatly improved this space/time quantification resulting in source data at a resolution of less than 10 km2/hr at the surface of North America. By providing visual tools to examine this new, high resolution CO2 data, we can better understand the way that CO2 is transmitted within the atmosphere and how it is exchanged with other components of the Earth System. We have developed interactive visual analytic tools, which allows for easy data manipulation, analysis, and extraction. The visualization system is aimed for a wide range of users which include researchers and political leaders. The goal is to help assist these people in analyzing data and enabling new policy options in mitigation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the U.S.
KW - CO
KW - GIS
KW - Interactive Visualization
KW - Multivariate and spatio-temporal data
KW - Visual analytics
KW - Volume visualization
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U2 - 10.1109/VAST.2008.4677372
DO - 10.1109/VAST.2008.4677372
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949855756
SN - 9781424429356
T3 - VAST'08 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Proceedings
SP - 173
EP - 174
BT - VAST'08 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Proceedings
Y2 - 21 October 2008 through 23 October 2008
ER -