Bridging Theory with Practice: An Exploratory Study of Visualization Use and Design for Climate Model Comparison

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 21; no. 9; pp. 996 - 1014
• Main Authors: Dasgupta, Aritra, Poco, Jorge, Yaxing Wei, Cook, Robert, Bertini, Enrico, Silva, Claudio T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.09.2015; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Biological system modeling; Climate; climate model; Collaboration; Data models; Data visualization; design principles; Encoding; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; Meteorology; Studies; Subject specialists; Taxonomy; Visualization; Vocabularies & taxonomies; WHITEBOARDS; Visualization; design principles; taxonomy; climate model

Evaluation methodologies in visualization have mostly focused on how well the tools and techniques cater to the analytical needs of the user. While this is important in determining the effectiveness of the tools and advancing the state-of-the-art in visualization research, a key area that has mostly...