Using XR for Improving Scientific Discovery With Numerical Weather Models

Our work explores the use of extended reality (XR) to im-
prove scientific discovery with numerical weather/climate
models that inform Earth science digital twins, specifically
the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) global
atmospheric model. The overall project is named the Vi-
sualization And Lagrangian dynamics Immersive eXtended
Reality Toolkit (VALIXR), which has two main areas of
focus: (1) enhancing the understanding of and interaction
with model output data through advanced visualizations in
the XR environment, and (2) the integration of Lagrangian
dynamics into the GEOS model, which allows a natural,
feature-specific analysis of Earth science phenomena as op-
posed to traditional, fixed-point Eulerian dynamics. Here, we
report initial work on these focus areas.