Data · collection
NCAR Historical Visualizations
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
See samples from the first 30 years of numerical computation and visualization in atmospheric science.Lewis Fry Richardson published Weather Prediction by Numerical Process in 1922.
Description
He imagined a stadium filled with people, each equipped with a slide rule and tasked with calculating a small part of the overwhelmingly large problem. And this symphony of calculation would perhaps lead to an answer to the problem.
With the arrival of early supercomputers, researchers found the answer and began formulating the first electonic computations of the global climate system, building largely upon the equations developed by Dr. Richardson. It wasn't long after when the pioneers in this endeavor wanted to visualize their results.
Read the rest (1 more)
Here are some samples of their early work, done on film, showcasing the first thirty years of numerical computation of our Earth System
Links
Get the data
- GET DATA vets.ucar.edu/vg/Historical/index.shtml ↗
download · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214613954-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214613954-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Geopotential Height · Not provided · Sea Surface Temperature · Surface Pressure · Total Precipitable Water
- Inferred from text
- Climatology 76%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214613954-SCIOPS | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:370202 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (76%) |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/altitude/geopotential-height | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-pressure/surface-pressure | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-water-vapor/water-vapor-indicators/total-precipitable-water | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-temperature/sea-surface-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |