Tidal wave: visualizing NOAA tidal predictions

Title:
Tidal wave: visualizing NOAA tidal predictions
Creator:
Lingenfelter, Violet (Author)
Contributor:
Ganguly, Auroop (Faculty mentor)
Language:
English
Date created:
April 2021
Type of resource:
Moving image
Genre:
Presentations (communicative events)
Format:
Video
electronic
Abstract/Description:
Tidal Wave is a visual exploration of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) daily high/low tidal projections. For any of their tidal stations, NOAA predicts the times and water levels of the high and low tides for the next month. Historically, marigrams (graphic records of the rise and fall of water level) have been used to visualize tidal patterns. By taking a more artistic interpretation of the marigram, we can begin to see some of the daily and monthly patterns that exist in the tides. Tidal Wave focuses on a single NOAA station in Moss Landing, California, and presents six new ways to visualize the predicted tidal highs and lows for the next 30 days at that station. The data visualizations are updated daily to reflect changes in the predicted highs and lows. Each visualization represents the same dataset slightly differently, allowing different patterns within the dataset to shine. The goal of the project is not to educate people on how tides work, but instead to spark curiosity in natural phenomena through interesting and aesthetically-pleasing visual pieces.
Notes:
Research originally presented at RISE:2021, hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Related item:
Research, innovation, scholarship and entrepreneurial expo (RISE)
Subjects and keywords:
Information visualization
Data art
Tidal data
Environmental sciences
Identifier:
692
Permanent URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20406819
Use and reproduction:
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