#178 — Climate Spiral
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Learn to create your own climate spiral using p5.js and temperature data. Originally designed by the climate scientist Ed Hawkins, the climate spiral is a visual representation of the changing temperatures over time, illustrating the urgent need to address climate change.
Webpage for the NCAS, which is a world-leading center for atmospheric science.
Professor Ed Hawkin's website with different climate visualizations.
Webpage with facts about global warming and the temperature anomaly.
NASA GISTEMP Datasets
FAQ about the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
2010 paper by Hansen, et al. on analysis of global surface temperature change.
2019 paper by Lenssen, et al. detailing a new and improved uncertainty analysis for surface temperature anomalies.
NOAA Global Surface Temperature Dataset, Version 4.0
Suggestion from ABohyn to recreate the "Climate Spiral"
p5 documentation on the loadTable function.
p5 documentation on the TableRow object.
p5 documentation on the lerpColor function.
Visualization by climate scientist Ed Hawkins showing monthly global temperature anomalies.
My tutorial explaining polar coordinates.
In this video I cover the functions translate(), rotate(), push() and pop().
- Editing
by Mathieu Blanchette
- Animations
by Jason Heglund