Journal
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 1080-1089Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3162
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- School of Psychology, University of East Anglia (UEA)
- Spatial Intelligence and Learning Centre (SILC), Temple University from the National Science Foundation [SBE-1041707]
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Visualization of climate data plays an integral role in the communication of climate change findings to both expert and nonexpert audiences. The cognitive and psychological sciences can provide valuable insights into how to improve visualization of climate data based on knowledge of how the human brain processes visual and linguistic information. We review four key research areas to demonstrate their potential to make data more accessible to diverse audiences: directing visual attention, visual complexity, making inferences from visuals, and the mapping between visuals and language. We present evidence-informed guidelines to help climate scientists increase the accessibility of graphics to non-experts, and illustrate how the guidelines can work in practice in the context of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change graphics.
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