Scientific publications and presentations
Publications
The following (likely incomplete) list contains scientific publications that are using Met.3D for development, evaluation, or use of new visualization techniques in meteorology.
If you have used Met.3D for a publication please let us know so we can add your paper to the list!
2025
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Jurkat-Witschas, T., and Coauthors: CIRRUS-HL: Picturing High- and Midlatitude Summer Cirrus and Contrail Cirrus above Europe with Airborne Measurements aboard the Research Aircraft HALO., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106, E2300–E2327, URL https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0270.1, 2025
2024
IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS)
Gossing, A., Beckert, A., Fischer, C., Klenert, N., Natarajan, V., Pacey, G., Vogt, T., Rautenhaus, M. and Baum, D.: A Ridge-based Approach for Extraction and Visualization of 3D Atmospheric Fronts, 2024 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS), 176-180, IEEE Computer Society, URL https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIS55277.2024.00043, 2024
Geoscientific Model Development
Tintó Prims, O., Redl, R., Rautenhaus, M., Selz, T., Matsunobu, T., Modali, K. R., and Craig, G.: The effect of lossy compression of numerical weather prediction data on data analysis: a case study using enstools-compression 2023.11, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 8909–8925, URL https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8909-2024, 2024
Geoscientific Model Development
Fischer, C., Fink, A. H., Schömer, E., Rautenhaus, M., and Riemer, M.: An objective identification technique for potential vorticity structures associated with African easterly waves, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 4213–4228, URL https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4213-2024, 2024
2023
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Schäfler, A. and Rautenhaus, M.: Interactive 3D Visual Analysis of Weather Prediction Data Reveals Midlatitude Overshooting Convection during the CIRRUS-HL Field Experiment, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104, E142-6E1434, URL http://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0103.1, 2023
Geoscientific Model Development
Neuhauser, C., Hieronymus, M., Kern, M., Rautenhaus, M., Oertel, A., and Westermann, R.: Visual Analysis of Model Parameter Sensitivities along Warm Conveyor Belt Trajectories Using Met.3D (1.6.0-Multivar1), Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 4617-4638, URL http://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4617-2023, 2023
Geoscientific Model Development
Beckert, A. A., Eisenstein, L., Oertel, A., Hewson, T., Craig, G. C., and Rautenhaus, M.: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Fronts in Mid-Latitude Weather Systems in Numerical Weather Prediction Models, Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 4427-4450, URL http://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4427-2023, 2023
2022
Geoscientific Model Development
Fischer, C., Fink, A. H., Schömer, E., van der Linden, R., Maier-Gerber, M., Rautenhaus, M., and Riemer, M.: A Novel Method for Objective Identification of 3-D Potential Vorticity Anomalies, Geoscientific Model Development, 15, 4447-4468, URL http://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4447-2022, 2022
2021
Weather and Climate Dynamics
Meyer, M., Polkova, I., Modali, K. R., Schaffer, L., Baehr, J., Olbrich, S., and Rautenhaus, M.: Interactive 3-D Visual Analysis of ERA5 Data: Improving Diagnostic Indices for Marine Cold Air Outbreaks and Polar Lows, Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2, 867-891, URL http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-867-2021, 2021
2020
promet
Schäfler, A., Ewald, F., and Rautenhaus, M.: Die Vermessung von Zyklonen (Observing Cyclones), promet (German Weather Service DWD), 103, 25-32, URL https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/pbfb_verlag_promet/pdf_promethefte/103_pdf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2, 2020
ECMWF Newsletter
Rautenhaus, M., Hewson, T., and Lang, A.: Cyclone Workshop showcases 3D visualisation, ECMWF Newsletter, 162, 4-5, URL http://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/162/news/cyclone-workshop-showcases3d-visualisation, 2020
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Eisenstein, L, Pantillon, F, Knippertz, P.: Dynamics of sting-jet storm Egon over continental Europe: Impact of surface properties and model resolution. Q J R Meteorol Soc., 146: 186-210, URL https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3666, 2020
2019
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Kern, M., Hewson, T., Schäfler, A., Westermann, R., and Rautenhaus, M.: Interactive 3D Visual Analysis of Atmospheric Fronts, IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics, 25, 1080-1090, URL http://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2864806, 2019
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Kumpf, A., Rautenhaus, M., Riemer, M., and Westermann, R.: Visual Analysis of the Temporal Evolution of Ensemble Forecast Sensitivities, IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics, 25, 98-108, URL http://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2864901, 2019
2018
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Rautenhaus, M., Böttinger, M., Siemen, S., Hoffman, R., Kirby, R. M., Mirzargar, M., Röber, N., and Westermann, R.: Visualization in Meteorology — A Survey of Techniques and Tools for Data Analysis Tasks, IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics, 24, 3268-3296, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2017.2779501, 2018
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Schäfler, A., Craig, G., Wernli, H., Arbogast, P., Doyle, J. D., McTaggart-Cowan, R., Methven, J., Rivière, G., Ament, F., Boettcher, M., Bramberger, M., Cazenave, Q., Cotton, R., Crewell, S., Delanoë, J., Dörnbrack, A., Ehrlich, A., Ewald, F., Fix, A., Grams, C. M., Gray, S. L., Grob, H., Groß, S., Hagen, M., Harvey, B., Hirsch, L., Jacob, M., Kölling, T., Konow, H., Lemmerz, C., Lux, O., Magnusson, L., Mayer, B., Mech, M., Moore, R., Pelon, J., Quinting, J., Rahm, S., Rapp, M., Rautenhaus, M., Reitebuch, O., Reynolds, C. A., Sodemann, H., Spengler, T., Vaughan, G., Wendisch, M., Wirth, M., Witschas, B., Wolf, K., and Zinner, T.: The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment, Bull. American Meteor. Soc., 99, 1607-1637, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0003.1, 2018
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Kern, M., Hewson, T., Sadlo, F., Westermann, R., and Rautenhaus, M.: Robust Detection and Visualization of Jet-stream Core Lines in Atmospheric Flow, IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics, 24, 893-902, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2017.2743989, 2018
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Kumpf, A., Tost, B., Baumgart, M., Riemer, M., Westermann, R., and Rautenhaus, M.: Visualizing Confidence in Cluster-based Ensemble Weather Forecast Analyses, IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics, 24, 109-119, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2017.2745178, 2018
2017
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Ferstl, F., Kanzler, M., Rautenhaus, M., and Westermann, R.: Time-hierarchical Clustering and Visualization of Weather Forecast Ensembles, IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics, 23, 831-840, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2016.2598868, 2017
2015
Geoscientific Model Development
Rautenhaus, M., Kern, M., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R.: Three-dimensional visualization of ensemble weather forecasts - Part 1: The visualization tool Met.3D (version 1.0), Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 2329-2353, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2329-2015, 2015
Geoscientific Model Development
Rautenhaus, M., Grams, C. M., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R.: Three-dimensional visualization of ensemble weather forecasts - Part 2: Forecasting warm conveyor belt situations for aircraft-based field campaigns, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 2355-2377, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2355-2015, 2015
2014
ECMWF Newsletter
Rautenhaus, M., Grams, G., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R.: GPU based interactive 3D visualization of ECMWF ensemble forecasts, ECMWF Newsletter, vol. 138 (Winter 2014), 34-38, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.21957/ouo7uwp2, 2014
Presentations
A very incomplete list of scientific presentations about Met.3D:
2025
EMS 2025
Rautenhaus, M., Fischer, C., Vogt, T., Beckert, A., and Hartz, M.: A new Met.3D version 2.0: Rapid exploration of gridded atmospheric data with interactive 3-D visualization, EMS Annual Meeting 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7-12 Sep 2025, EMS2025-369, URL https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2025-369, 2025, Video available at https://vimeo.com/1118273345?fl=pl&fe=sh
EuroVis 2025
Rautenhaus M, Fischer C, Vogt T, Beckert A.: Towards Met. 3D version 2: Creating a community research software for interactive 3D visualization of meteorological data, EuroVis 2025 - 27th EG Conference on Visualization, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 2-6 June 2025, URL https://doi.org/10.2312/evp.20251144, 2025
2024
EMS 2024
Rautenhaus, M., Fischer, C., Vogt, T., Beckert, A., and Fuchs, S.: Towards Met.3D version 2: Rapid exploration of numerical weather prediction data by means of interactive 3-D visualization, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-946, URL https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-946, 2024, Video available at https://vimeo.com/showcase/11446339/video/1025260525/
2022
UEF 2022
Met.3D: Interactive 3D visualization for rapid exploration of atmospheric ensemble simulation data (Recording), Using ECMWF’s Forecasts (UEF2022), 7-10 June 2022, Reading, UK.
2019
ECMWF Workshop
Is it time for interactivity and 3D? New approaches to analysing NWP data for observational campaigns using 3D and ensemble visualization, Workshop on observational campaigns for better weather forecasts, 10-13 June 2019, ECMWF, Reading, UK.
2018
EGOWS 2018
Using Met3D at ECMWF, 29th European Working Group on Operational Meteorological Workstations (EGOWS), 15-17 October 2018, ECMWF, Reading, UK
2017
MOS 2017
Ensemble and 3D visualization with Met.3D - recent research and software updates, 16th Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems (MOS), 1-3 March 2017, ECWMF, Reading, UK.
2015
ECMWF VisWeek 2015
Interactive 3D visualization of ECMWF ensemble weather predictions, Visualisation in Meteorology week 2015, 28 September - 2 October 2015, ECMWF, Reading, UK.