المحاكاة البصرية للظواهر المناخية من خلال البيانات متعددة الأبعاد باستخدام برنامج Panoply

Abstract EN

Visual-simulation in the framework of climate studies can be defined as the researcher's technical abilities to visualize changes in climate phenomena over time, and it is one of the latest research practices related to climate studies, where visual simulations and visualizations together provide the opportunity to detect changes, patterns, and behaviors that affects the Atmosphere elements over time, aiming of understanding the nature, distribution, and the approach of these highly complex natural systems in one hand, and on the other, contributing to providing an easy way that can be relied upon when providing climate-related recommendations and policies.

This paper focuses on pointing to the importance of recruitment spatial climate data and making the most of it through visual simulations and visualization, by providing a brief practical guide that may help the climatology and Geography community to simulate and visualize their research results based on multidimensions data using Panoply software.

Panoply is a free, multidisciplinary scientific platform produced by NASA made for multidimensional data visualization and simulation operations.

The program uses an easy-to-use graphical interface (GUI) that allows several visualization options without a need for advanced technical skills, where it possible to produce Animation maps, Zonal Averages, Hovmöller diagrams, and other products.

The program also provides some geospatial and cartographic options such as Overlaying, Interpolation, Contouring, and encoding winds using vector data, as well as some other options like color symbology, labeling, and modifying units, etc., aiming of presenting a correct scientifically product from the climatic and cartographic aspects.