Archive for the ‘Environment/weather’ Category
Chile Earthquake Shifted City 10 Feet West
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
9 Mar 2010Based on GPS data, the entire city of Concepcion moved 10 feet to the west. Note that in the maps below the arrow scale and map scale are different – it looks a little odd at first, but makes sense.
Climate Change Keeps Fighting
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
8 Mar 2010Climate change scientists have started a fightback against sceptics who argue that the observed changes in the Earth’s climate can largely be explained by natural variability. This comes after the email hacking furore.
A major Met Office review of more than 100 scientific studies tracking the observed changes in the Earth’s climate system finds that it is an "increasingly remote possibility" that human activity is not the main cause of climate change
Sea Levels
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
28 Feb 2010What cities might flood when.
Northeast Snowpocalypses
28 Feb 2010Biggest NE storms of all time. Strangely, excludes the Blizzard of ‘77, which I remember in upstate NY.
Global Climate Dashboard
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
17 Feb 2010From NOAA. Nice quick display of data and indices.
They also have an interactive Map of weather stations from which you can download raw data:
Crowdsourcing Crisis Management
In: Culture| Environment/weather| Global Economy| Maps| Science
31 Jan 2010
Winter Weather – ummmm and More Weather
In: Environment/weather| Interactive| Maps| Science| Source: USA Today
29 Jan 2010I think most of us absorbed this in earth science class, but if you need a refresher on how different air layers create different types of precipitation, here it is. (Also, the animations are quite pretty).
Looking around the site it turns out this is just one in a very large series of weather related interactives. Check it out. Some very cool stuff, including my hometown favorite: Lake Effect Snow (Irondequoit, NY).
Large Earthquakes 1990-2005
25 Jan 2010Magnitude 7.0 and larger per year. More than I would have thought.
Environment Performance Index
22 Jan 2010The Environmental Performance Index – developed by scientists at Columbia and Yale – aims to aggregate various countries’ performance across environmental indicators, and give each an overall mark out of 100.
New Haiti Satellite Pictures
In: Culture| Environment/weather| Maps
20 Jan 2010Google has released a series of higher quality satellite pictures taken on Jan 17th. Crazy resolution of the destruction.
Understanding Haiti’s Earthquakes
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
20 Jan 2010Thanks to Sean Speer for pointing it out.
Trends
In: Culture| Environment/weather| Global Economy| Politics| Science
19 Jan 2010Nowandnext.com has a number of interesting timelines. Thanks to Sam Freund for pointing them out!
Trends and Technology (2010-2050): 
Innovations (1920-2050): 
Extinction timeline (1950-2050): 
Haiti
In: Culture| Environment/weather| Global Economy| Maps| Science| Source: NYT| Source: USA Today| Source: WSJ| Source: Washington Post
15 Jan 2010Crazy amount of damage. and Haiti wasn’t in very good shape to start with. I’ll keep adding finds to this same post as I come across them.
I kept hearing that the shipping port was out of commission and was wondering what exactly that meant. Here it is. (via Washington Post print edition) 
Damage zone and location of aftershocks : 
Faultlines, cities, population density, shaking: 
Annotated map: 
Zoomable satellite map of Port-au-Prince from 10:30 Wednesday:
NYT side-by-side before and after satellite pictures: 
Map of logistical challenges hampering relief efforts: 
Earthquake primer with details on Haiti’s plates: 
Auto Charts
12 Jan 2010The UNEP GEO Data Portal has recently automated some chart production with a custom Illustrator script, for cross-country comparison purposes. The below example is for total CO2 emissions vs per capita. While I really like the waveform-type display aesthetically, I’m not sure of it’s analytical value compared to a bar chart.
It works a little better here (Total Final Energy Consumption):
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