Visualization of Remotely Sensed Data with 3-D Meteorological Modeling Results

摘要

EPA Models-3 system, the third-generation air quality modeling system, is a framework which accommodates new science modules and support their evaluation. One component of the Models-3 system is the Mesoscale Meteorological Model (MM5) which simulates clouds, water-vapor, wind and air deposition. Without comparing simulated data to measurements of real atmospheric data, the quality of the simulated data is completely unknown. There are tremendous amounts of data from satellite and radar which after being combined with geographical information may be compared to the simulated data. Visualization provides a quick and easy tool to present and analyze remote sensing data sets and compare with the modeling results.