Innovative visualisations

ECMWF’s visualisations are developed with weather forecasters in mind. This challenge focused on developing new visualisations that help to communicate weather information to non-experts. The goal was to develop an innovative visualisation to present ensemble weather forecasts. 

A new design of a meteogram (a graphical presentation of multiple weather variables for a particular location) has been developed with value-suppressing uncertainty (VSU) icons. They allocate a larger range of icons when the uncertainty is low and a smaller range when the uncertainty is high (see figure below). This helps to make ensemble forecasts more accessible and to increase the overall trust in 15-day forecasts.

Follow the developments on GitHub