What we offer
Scientific visualizations provide a look into the details and complexities of the data computed or measured by researchers. SIS offers support in the areas of scientific visualization to the researchers at or asscosiated with ETH Zurich.
We provide consulting, services and software solutions for scientific facilities, groups and research projects to visualize their data. We work with data ranging from field measurements (mostly small) to data from massively-parallel large-scale computations (several TeraBytes). We specialize in both desktop solutions and cluster/supercomputer based parallel-visualizations.
Selected projects
- Tropical cyclones: Global high-resolution impact modeling
Group: Prof. David N. Bresch, Weather and Climate Risks
Institute: Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich
The animation shows yearly tropical-cyclones and damage buildup. The simulations was performed by using Climada impact model (10km) (Chadha & Bresch 2017), Zyklonenbahndaten from IBTrACS (NOAA) and background picture from Reto Stöckli (NASA Earth Observatory). - Global Warming: The role of soil moisture
Group: Prof. Sonia Seneviratne, Land-Climate Dynamics
Institute: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, ETH Zurich
The animation shows the increasing annual maximum temperature (compared to the mean over the 1951-1970 time period) with and without soil moisture feedbacks. (Based on Seneviratne et al. 2013, GRL and Vogel et al. 2017, GRL)
- Global Wind Visualization
Institute: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, ETH Zurich
Animation of the global wind fields at 500 hPa, duration: 01.01.2000 00:00 - 20.01.2000 00:00 (velocity data: ECMWF ERA-Interim, background image: Dr. Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory).
- Scientific visualization of terrestrial ecosystem trace gas fluxes
Group: Prof. Nina Buchmann, Grassland Sciences
Institute: Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich
Animation of Green House Gas (GHG) flux data.