虚拟现实技术在气象领域的应用

将虚拟现实与气象应用相结合,能有效解决气象领域中传统模式存在的局限性问题,是虚拟现实技术的一个主要研究方向。首先介绍了虚拟现实技术的定义与组成,将其发展分为萌芽、初步应用以及全面发展3个阶段,并综述了各阶段的代表性成果,随后,详细论述了虚拟现实技术在天气现象、天气系统和数值预报产品等气象领域的理论研究成果。此外,分析归纳了气象领域中维修培训、影视宣传和气象科普等方面应用虚拟现实技术的典型案例。最后,从虚拟现实产业本身以及其与气象应用相结合两个方面,探讨了虚拟现实技术在气象应用上所面临的问题,并展望了可能的研究方向以及未来前景。

Research and Application of Virtual Reality in Meteorology

Combining virtual reality with meteorological application can effectively overcome the limitations of traditional models in the meteorological field, and is a main research direction of virtual reality technology. The definition and composition of virtual reality technology are briefly introduced, and its development is divided into three stages: germination, preliminary application and comprehensive development; meanwhile, the representative achievements of each stage are summarized. The theoretical research achievements of virtual reality technology in weather phenomena, weather systems and numerical forecast products are discussed in detail. In addition, the typical cases of applying virtual reality technology in the fields such as the training of meteorological sounding equipment maintenance, film and television publicity and meteorological popularization are analyzed and summarized. The problems faced by virtual reality technology in meteorological application are discussed from two perspectives: virtual reality industry and its combination with meteorological application. The last part of this paper discusses the possible research direction and future prospects.