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Methods for the visualization of clustered climate data. (English) Zbl 1077.62541

The authors discuss different visualization techniques for the results of clusterization. Meteorological data from Germany and Brazil are considered in the examples. OpenDX visualization software is used for the implementation. Rectangular View and modified Theme River plots, different spatial representations, interactively linked scatterplots and parallel coordinate views are described. Special attention is paid to the efficient cluster color coding.

MSC:

62P12 Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics
86A10 Meteorology and atmospheric physics
62A09 Graphical methods in statistics

Software:

ThemeRiver; OpenDX
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