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Congratulations to Kitware and Berk Geveci for winning a nice $150k DOE grant to build a new user-friendly data analysis application for the complex worldwide climate science databases.

“ClimatePipes will provide access to data that can have a real impact on global climate changes. It will allow the public to better appreciate climate change and enable industries to use climate data in a variety of unforeseen applications,” said Berk Geveci, director of scienfitic computing at Kitware and principle investigator on this SBIR grant. “Our solution aims to be the platform for user-friendly data access, but not to replace high-end analysis tools for scientists. We are looking forward to a tool that is very simple, intuitive, and that can be used by non-researchers and non-programmers.”

I can’t say for certain, but I suspect this will rely heavily on their already built “ParaViewWeb” system for the visualization parts, but I look forward to seeing what they come up with for data provenance.

via Kitware Awarded Department of Energy Research Grant to aid Access to Data Provided by the Ongoing Efforts of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

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LearningFundamentals has an impressive collection of 11 Mind Maps showing how you can impact Climate Change.  Covering Health, Chemistry, Behavioral, and Scientific facts about Climate change, as well as the various impacts it could have on our environment, they are impressive to check out, if not a bit Simplistic.

Targeted at Teachers and Educators, the maps are available online in full resolution, although they do request a donation for the effort required to create them.

resources | Learning Fundamentals. via ChartPorn

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced that it is consolidating its climate change research capabilities into the NOAA Climate Service office. As part of this consolidation, the NOAA Climate Services has recently installed a dashboard on their web site for the dissemination of climactic data in a user-friendly format. The dashboard has two tabs. The first tab, called Climate Change, covers all the hot-topic issues, such as the yearly temperature, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, sea level rise, incoming sunlight, and decreasing Arctic sea ice. The published data ranges from 1880 for temperature through 2008. Some data series, such as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, do not go back the full range. The second tab, called Climate Variability, covers the Oceanic Nino index, Southern Oscillation index, Pacific-North American pattern, North Atlantic Oscillation index, and the Arctic Oscillation index. The published data for the Climate Variability data ranges from 1950 for temperature through 2008.

via : NOAA Climate Services

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The Nature Conservancy, the University of Washington, and the University of Southern Mississippi have collaborated to create an online interactive “Climate Wizard”.  You can review the last 50 years of data, or look at predictions out to 2050 and 2080 using one of about 30 different circulation models and emission scenarios.

With ClimateWizard you can:

• view historic temperature and rainfall maps for anywhere in the world
• view state-of-the-art future predictions of temperature and rainfall around the world
• view and download climate change maps in a few easy steps

ClimateWizard enables technical and non-technical audiences alike to access leading climate change information and visualize the impacts anywhere on Earth.  The first generation of this web-based program allows the user to choose a state or country and both assess how climate has changed over time and to project what future changes are predicted to occur in a given area. ClimateWizard represents the first time ever the full range of climate history and impacts for a landscape have been brought together in a user-friendly format.

The results are impressive, although every model I tried showed us all  digging out the shorts by 2080.

Climate Wizard.

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People have scoured the exposed CRU emails and compiled all of them into a massive timeline covering 30 years of information contained within, presenting it as a huge PDF.

You have to see this to believe it. Look up close and admire the detail while you despair at how long science has been going off the rails. To better appreciate the past and what was exposed by the CRU emails, the time-line chart consolidates and chronologically organizes the information uncovered and published about the CRU emails by many researchers along with some related contextual events. That the chart exists at all is yet another example of how skilled experts are flocking in to the skeptics position and dedicating hours of time pro bono because they are passionately motivated to fight against those who try to deceive us.

via The Climategate Timeline: 30 years visualized « Watts Up With That?.

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The Norrkoping Visualization Center is developing a pair of products designed for visualization of climate related information over the web and on a large scale immersive platform. Called ICEWeb and ICEDome, they are described as such:

ICEWeb

This tool lets researchers exchange and edit climate data through an easy-to-use web application. ICEWeb makes it easy to upload a dataset, visualize it and export to other formats than the original.

ICEDome

This is a software environment for large scale visualization and functions as a framework for development of new visualization techniques. The focus is on using massive multi-dimensional and time variate data as well as on integrating mixed media in highly interactive, immersive, environments.

The products are being developed with help from the Linköping University and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, and show great promise in providing a general platform for collaborative visualization and analysis.

See videos of the products after the break.

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Robert Kosara over at eagereyes throws his hat into the ring with the recently released climate data from the UK’s Met Office and throws his results back to the community.  First off is a much nicer formatted version of the data itself:

I converted and reshaped the data into a CSV file that is much larger (because it contains a lot of redundancies), but that is much easier to work with in Tableau and other programs. This file also contains the continent classification and the first year of data recorded per station. You can also download my packaged Tableau workbook if you have Tableau or want to look at it in Tableau Reader.

After that he shows several visualizations analyzing the data from several different perspectives (regions, timeframes, number of stations, etc).  A great read for anyone looking at this data.

via A Look At Climate Data | EagerEyes.org.

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Google has turned their considerable computing power to more “sustainable” goals with a new product announced yesterday at the UN Climate Change Conference.  A prototype system that combines with Google Earth uses their significant cloud computing horsepower to automatically detect and visualize areas of suspected deforestation.

The prototype system, could, for example, allow users to show forest cover and deforestation over time in Rondonia, Brazil from 1986-2008 in just seconds. This type of computation normally takes days or weeks, but the massive horsepower of Google’s data centers makes the information much more quickly. In practical terms, that means police investigators can get to the root of illegal logging activity quickly, and activist groups like Greenpeace could call out logging operations in real-time. The system could also be used in the proposed UN REDD program, which might pay developing countries to cut down on deforestation.

Google Blog via Google Earth Uses the Cloud to Fight Deforestation | Sustainability | Fast Company.

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