Editing IPCC:AR6/WGI/Chapter-Atlas (section)

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The visual communication of climate information can take many forms. Besides the standard visual products typically used for communicating global and regional climate information to practitioners (e.g., maps, time series or scatter plots), the Interactive Atlas incorporates new visuals, for example, ‘stripes’ ( [[#RMetS--2019|RMetS, 2019]] ), facilitating the communication of key messages (e.g., warming and consistency across models) to a less technical audience. The various tabular and graphical representation alternatives included as options in the Interactive Atlas (Figure Atlas.8) facilitate exploring the information interactively from different perspectives and in different levels of detail, thus favouring communication with the large and diverse audience of IPCC products.

To support the use of visuals provided in the Interactive Atlas for application to different audiences, new insights since AR5 have emerged from a range of scientific disciplines, including the cognitive and psychological sciences ( [[#Harold--2016|Harold et al., 2016]] ). Studies have used interviews and online surveys to assess interpretations of visuals used to communicate climate information and uncertainties ( [[#Daron--2015|Daron et al., 2015]] ; [[#Lorenz--2015|Lorenz et al., 2015]] ; [[#McMahon--2015|McMahon et al., 2015]] ; [[#Retchless--2016|Retchless and Brewer, 2016]] ). They commonly find wide-ranging interpretations and varied understandings of climate information amongst respondents due to the choice of visuals. In addition, [[#Taylor--2015|Taylor et al. (2015)]] found that preferences for a particular visualization approach do not always align with the approaches that achieve greatest accuracy in interpretation. Choosing appropriate visuals for a particular purpose and audience can be informed by testing and evaluation with target groups.

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