http://climatedata.blprnt.com/topic/seasonal-variations-per-areas Data Visualization & Climate Reality en-US Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:05:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://climatedata.blprnt.com/search.php http://climatedata.blprnt.com/topic/seasonal-variations-per-areas#post-52 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:06:05 +0000 Arenamontanus 52@http://climatedata.blprnt.com/ <p>The radial plot helps, although there is some arbitrariness in where to place zero degrees - put it too far out and everything turns into a circle (and the yearly variations get hidden), put it to close to the centre and winters turn into cusps. That is why I like time-delay plots. But I suspect viewers understand radial plots much better, since it fits our often geometric ideas of the "shape" of a year.</p> <p>The animation really works, but it is hard to see the slow trend. Maybe it would be useful if the plots left a subtle grey track of where they had been, making it more clear that the blue one has moved outwards?</p> <p>I really need to learn R, the plots are beautiful. </p> http://climatedata.blprnt.com/topic/seasonal-variations-per-areas#post-51 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:53:17 +0000 blprnt 51@http://climatedata.blprnt.com/ <p>Cool!</p> <p>I think Arenamontanus is doing some similar work:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenamontanus/4182402460/" title="Suntar by Arenamontanus, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4182402460_1acf7a245c.jpg" alt="Suntar" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgilbir/4182364808/" title="Temperature evolution (North region) - polar plot by mgilbir, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4182364808_1dbdb7770b.jpg" alt="Temperature evolution (North region) - polar plot" /></a></p> <p>As I said in his post, I think this radial plot is very effective. </p> http://climatedata.blprnt.com/topic/seasonal-variations-per-areas#post-43 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:33:04 +0000 mgilbir 43@http://climatedata.blprnt.com/ <p>The blog post I mentioned before:<br /> <a href="http://franchu.net/2009/12/13/united-kingdoms-met-office-dataset-preliminary-analysis/" rel="nofollow">http://franchu.net/2009/12/13/united-kingdoms-met-office-dataset-preliminary-analysis/</a></p> <p>All the images are available on Flickr:<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgilbir/sets/72157622993137416/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgilbir/sets/72157622993137416/</a> </p> http://climatedata.blprnt.com/topic/seasonal-variations-per-areas#post-42 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:36:30 +0000 mgilbir 42@http://climatedata.blprnt.com/ <p>I just gave a shot at the dataset and came up with my first Processing visualisation.</p> <p><object width="500" height="375"></p> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8150082&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1" />&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8150082&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="500" height="375"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;</object></p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8150082">Global average temperature evolution 1701 - 2009</a></p> <p>It aims to represents how the temperature has evolved over time in different regions of the Earth:</p> <ul> <li>North represents the data recorded by stations between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer. </li> <li>Tropic represents the data recorded by stations between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. </li> <li>South represents the data recorded by stations between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle. </li> </ul> <p>I am preparing a blog post with some further analysis of the data. All feedback is very much appreciated :) </p>