A VASUALIZATION FOR THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS OF THE MIXTURE OF WATER MASS FOR NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC NEAR JAPAN

Abstract

Recent studies are focusing on the distribution of water mass because the mixture region of water mass is highly related to the rich fishing grounds [Yasuda I., Watanabe Y., Fish. Oceanogr.3(3):172–181, 1994]. Due to the large data size and time-varying property, efficient exploration and visualization of the ocean data is always extremely challenging. To extract the dynamic behaviors of the water mass and its mixture from a large-scale simulated ocean dataset, we developed an efficient visualization system by applying our volume compression method and our volume rendering method. This system allows us to investigate the time-varying distributions of ocean physical properties, additionally from the user's perspective and requirements. In the experiments, we show the generality and expressiveness by applying our system for single- and multi-property visualizations to find some significant ocean water mass. Consequently, we could obtain a clear visualization result to show the dynamic behaviors of the mixture of water mass for simulation data regarding a location in the northwestern Pacific near Japan.