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Thursday, February 1, 2018

The Real-Time Air Pollution Map


Berkeley world claims that 1.6 ane chiliad m people are dying from air pollution every twelvemonth inwards mainland People's Republic of China alone. Berkeley world is a non-profit organization who are investigating bear witness of climate change. As role of that chore they convey released a real-time map of air pollution or too hence the world. The Real-time Map of Air Pollution shows real-time information on particulate affair air pollution less than 2.5 microns inwards diameter (PM2.5).

The information for the Berkeley world air pollution map comes from thousands of surface monitoring stations across the globe. The map typically shows information from well-nigh 2 hours behind real-time. As y'all volition in all probability run across when looking at the map large areas of mainland People's Republic of China too Republic of Republic of India typically sense unsafe levels of air pollution. If y'all hover over an expanse on the map y'all tin read an assessment of the electrical current air pollution atmospheric condition at that location.


Berkeley world every bit good maintains a break of databases on historical global temperature records. There are some interesting mapped visualizations of this data. For instance Lisa Charlotte Rost has used historical temperature information from Berkeley world to visualize how much the average temperature has risen or fallen inwards every European metropolis since 1960.

The interactive map inwards Which European cities convey gotten warmer? (Spoiler: All of them) uses colored markers to exhibit the average temperature deviation inwards European cities. If y'all hover over a city's marking y'all tin stance the lift of the metropolis too the break of degrees centigrade that the average temperature has risen inwards the metropolis since 1960.

Axios every bit good used Berkeley world information to practise an animated map of summertime temperatures, All the estrus records broken this summertime on ane map. Axios' map uses information compiled past times Berkeley world from May 1 through July 31 2018. The map animates through this fourth dimension menstruation plotting all the locations or too hence the world which experienced a daily, monthly or all fourth dimension temperature record. The overall painting exhibit at the halt of the animation, showing all the records at once, is a stark instance of how practically the whole of the northern hemisphere experienced tape breaking temperatures concluding year.