isabel {gcookbook}

Data from simulation of hurricane Isabel

Description

This data is from a simulation of hurricane Isabel in 2003. It includes temperature and wind data for a 2139km (east-west) x 2004km (north-south) x 19.8km (vertical) volume. The simluation data is from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and it was used in the IEEE Visualization 2004 Contest.

Usage

isabel

Variables

• x: Latitude (x coordinate).

• y: Longitude (y coordinate).

• z: Height in km (z coordinate).

• vx: x wind component in m/s

• vy: y wind component in m/s

• vz: z wind component in m/s

• t: Temperature in Celcius

• speed: wind speed, sqrt(vx^2 + vy^2 + vz^2)

Source

http://vis.computer.org/vis2004contest/data.html

http://ncar.ucar.edu/