The National Snow together with Ice Data Center has created a serial of interactive maps which visualize Satellite Observations of Arctic Change. The maps allow yous to encounter how sea ice, snowfall embrace together with frozen footing bring all been shrinking during the 21st Century. Other maps plot air temperature changes inwards the Arctic together with the changes to Arctic vegetation.
Global warming is causing observable changes to ecological systems inwards the Arctic. Air temperatures inwards the Arctic are rising together with sea H2O ice extent is declining. Even Arctic vegetation is changing alongside tundra existence replaced yesteryear shrubs.
Each of the NSIDC interactive maps uses NASA satellite information together with query to plot changes to the Arctic from 1979 to 2015. The maps allow yous to let on the information for each twelvemonth inwards this menses to let on how global warming has effected the ecological systems of the Arctic.
Mapbox has also released a map which allows yous to stance monthly Arctic sea H2O ice changes all the agency dorsum to 1976 (when consistent satellite measurements began). Mapping Arctic Sea Ice uses information from the National Snow together with Ice Data Center to demonstrate the sea H2O ice embrace for whatever month.
If yous choose a calendar month from the timeline yous tin dismiss non alone stance the extent of the sea H2O ice coverage for that calendar month but also a trouble graph showing the total H2O ice expanse inwards km2 together with the temperature anomaly inwards a higher house the norm over time. The graph shows a clear tendency of rising temperatures inwards the Arctic together with a autumn inwards the expanse of sea H2O ice coverage.
The polar projection inwards the Arctic Sea Ice map was created alongside D3.js. You tin dismiss easily exercise your ain polar projection inwards Leaflet using Arctic Web Map,an Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server. If yous desire to know how Mapbox created their polar projection so read the explanation below the map on the Mapbox blog.
MasterMaps has created some other impressive mapped visualization of the Arctic H2O ice cap. The Arctic Sea Ice map allows yous to compare the monthly sea H2O ice embrace inwards the Arctic for whatever calendar month since 2006.
If yous choose a calendar month from the bottom timeline yous tin dismiss so accommodate the twelvemonth on the tiptop timeline to brand a straight comparing of whatever calendar month for each twelvemonth from 2006 to 2015. Every fourth dimension yous accommodate the timeline the Arctic encounter H2O ice coverage is automatically updated on the map. This map was also created alongside attention from D3.js.
At the other cease of the footing Antarctica is also losing sea ice. Like virtually everything else glacial nation H2O ice obeys the police delineate of gravity. Ice sheets thence current downhill. They commonly exercise this very, really slowly. Unfortunately nosotros don't alive inwards normal times.
Global warming has warmed the oceans. Warmer oceans bring undercut Antarctica's glaciers, causing them to current quicker together with quicker. With over 60% of the world's freshwater locked inwards Antarctica's H2O ice this is a huge concern. If this H2O ice melts nosotros volition encounter a global ascent inwards sea degree together with coastal cities approximately the footing volition live on inwards danger of inundation.
The New York Times has created a serial of maps to attention explicate how global warming could Pb to the melting of Antarctica's H2O ice sheets together with travail rising sea levels approximately the world. In Antarctic Dispatches glacier H2O ice current is beautifully illustrated inwards a serial of animated maps. The danger of global rising seas is explained inwards maps showing areas of Antarctica that bring lost x feet or to a greater extent than of H2O ice since 2010.
Part iii of Antarctic Dispatches uses a scrolling map to attention illustrate the amount of H2O locked upward inwards Antarctica's H2O ice sheets. The scale of the Ross Ice Shelf is illustrated yesteryear overlaying the road of the New York marathon on tiptop of satellite imagery of the H2O ice shelf. The Ross Ice Shelf is huge!
