The representation of global weather. The experience of the interactive plat-form EARTH

Abstract

Data visualization technology has rendered numerous databases visible and comprehensible, and the question of access, analysis, usage, and visualization of data is one of the challeng-es of the digital society. Depicting meteorological phenomena, such as winds, tides, and environmental consequences like pollution, raises a series of questions about the aesthetic forms of visualization employed. Since 2012, Beccario, a computer engineer, has developed the EARTH interactive platform dedicated to visualizing Earth’s weather, offering users an experience of global weather conditions detected by supercomputers. How are the data describing meteorological phenomena represented? The goal is to understand the visual struc-tures of the platform by grasping the relationship between the data and their visualization.