Tag Archive for 'Visualization'

Visualizing US CO2 emissions

A neat visualization of CO2 emissions from the Vulcan project. They CO2 levels, which aren’t measured, from fine scale air pollution data and atmospheric models to produce high resolution hourly map of US CO2 emissions. Kevin Gurney posted a visualization of their data on YouTube, in which you can see the daily and seasonal variation in emissions.

via Great Beyond and Andrew Revkin’s DotEarth

Global tropical cyclone tracks

From Wikipedia, an image of global tropical cyclone tracks (8000 x 4000 pixels).

global cycolone tracks

The map shows the tracks of all Tropical cyclones which formed worldwide from 1985 to 2005. The points show the locations of the storms at six-hourly intervals and colors the points based on the hurricane strength.