[Infovis] Session on Communication of Uncertain Information at EGU 2016

[Torsten Möller]

European Geosciences Union annual assembly  Vienna | Austria | 17–22 April 
2016.

Communication of uncertain information in earth sciences: data, models and 
visualization

Information in the earth sciences is supplied to many end users, including 
regulators, policy makers and the general public.  It is important that these 
end users understand the uncertainties in information so that they can make 
robust decisions.  Much effort has been put into quantitative methods to 
describe the uncertainty in environmental information, but the outputs these 
generate (probabilities, confidence intervals etc.) are not always understood 
by the end user.  Effective communication of uncertain information is an 
important challenge, and one which must be tackled collaboratively by earth 
scientists, statisticians, psychologists and others.  In 2015 there was a 
successful session held at EGU to bring together scientists with a range of 
backgrounds to consider these issues. We believe that the area remains a lively 
and important one, and want to continue the discussion.  We therefore invite 
you to consider submitting an abstract to the session.

Abstracts by 13 Jan 2016, 13:00 CET at http://www.egu2016.eu/
see also http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20482