Reconstruction of sampled and modeled oceanographic informationusing an exploratory environment

摘要

The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) Department of Defense(DoD) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) operates as a DoD shared highperformance computing (HPC) center, serving over 2000 users nationwide.Scientific visualization is an essential element of HPC that providesthe methodology to explore, define, and present the results ofcomputations. Accurate and understandable representation of data impactsa project in several ways: it helps scientists understand the physicalphenomena they are studying, it helps communicate this work to theircolleagues, and it helps explain the work and its significance to thepublic. Our scientific visualization team, in conjunction withresearchers at our facility and other DoD facilities, have accomplishednumerous visualizations of large data sets. In this paper we presentexamples of the methods, techniques, and results of our efforts tovisualize observational data and the output of numeric oceanmodels