TY - GEN
T1 - An Interactive Web-Based Geovisual Analytics Tool to Explore Water Scarcity in Niger River Basin
AU - Lei, T. L.
AU - Liang, X.
AU - Mascaro, G.
AU - Luo, W.
AU - White, D.
AU - Westerhoff, P.
AU - Maciejewski, R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Some material presented here was sponsored by a grant from the Department of Defense and upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1350573. Disclaimer: The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of ASU, DoD, or the U.S. Government.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Eurographics Association 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Assessing the needs for adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change and variability in Niger River Basin is a key for future development in Western Africa. There are two major challenges in terms of the assessment: the first is that future projections in water availability based on the historical trends are hard to assess under uncertainty, and the second is that human activities and population growth play a decisive but very uncertain role in environmental impacts. In order to address both challenges, we have developed a geovisual analytics tool for exploring simulation results under combinations of climate models, climate policies, and future population growth. Moreover, our tool is capable of ensemble-visualization and allows users to explore agreement levels among different climate models to assess future uncertainty.
AB - Assessing the needs for adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change and variability in Niger River Basin is a key for future development in Western Africa. There are two major challenges in terms of the assessment: the first is that future projections in water availability based on the historical trends are hard to assess under uncertainty, and the second is that human activities and population growth play a decisive but very uncertain role in environmental impacts. In order to address both challenges, we have developed a geovisual analytics tool for exploring simulation results under combinations of climate models, climate policies, and future population growth. Moreover, our tool is capable of ensemble-visualization and allows users to explore agreement levels among different climate models to assess future uncertainty.
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U2 - 10.2312/envirvis.20151092
DO - 10.2312/envirvis.20151092
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85098726120
T3 - EnvirVis 2015 - Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences
SP - 55
EP - 59
BT - EnvirVis 2015 - Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences
A2 - Fellner, Dieter
PB - The Eurographics Association
T2 - 3rd Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, EnvirVis 2015 at EuroVis 2015
Y2 - 25 May 2015 through 26 May 2015
ER -