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- Title
True Colors of Oceanography.
- Authors
Thyng, Kristen M.; Greene, Chad A.; Hetland, Robert D.; Zimmerle, Heather M.; DiMarco, Steven F.
- Abstract
The article presents guidelines for effective and accurate colormap selection for oceanography .The guidelines including representing sequential data with a monotonically increasing range of lightness values, using a perceptually uniform colormap as perceptual uniformity is essential for displaying numerical data without artificial weighting and considering colorblind viewers as for them reds and greens of similar lightness values can be difficult to discern.
- Subjects
OCEANOGRAPHY; COLOR; DATA; RED; GREEN
- Publication
Oceanography, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 3, p9
- ISSN
1042-8275
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.5670/oceanog.2016.66