pyParaOcean: A Visualization plugin in Paraview for Oceanographers

Vijay Kumar Boda

Abstract

Ocean scientists working with various simulation models and observational datasets rely on interactive visualizations to help them analyze. Scientists face many challenges in effectively communicating the data, especially when dealing with multivariate data. The reason is that the dataset can become large and multidimensional since Ocean data is multivariate. It can have scalar fields such as salinity, temperature, pressure, etc., vector fields like velocity through space and time, and the availability of various simulation models. There are many visualization tools available for visualizing the data. Since those tools are not built for specific tasks relevant to oceanography, the usage of the tool for domain experts and scientists will be challenging. This project aims to build a plugin in ParaView to create visualizations of the multivariate, temporal oceanography data and help gain insights.

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