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Cameron Beccario

9 months

was launched 10 years ago today! 🎉 At the time, I couldn’t have imagined the longevity and impact this project would have. To all the users and fans over the years: thank you. And with this anniversary, an announcement:

Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

11 years

http://t.co/4B3cbB23fR: an animated map of global wind conditions

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

6 years

This was much harder than I thought. Full year 2018 time lapse animation of surface winds... in 4K! (But you need to visit YouTube for full res: )

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@cambecc

6 years

To celebrate the 5 year launch anniversary of , there's now a date selector dialog to quickly jump back in time to see historical wind data. It's all there, every three hour step at every pressure level, since launch on Dec 9, 2013.

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@cambecc

4 years

has a new UI starting today! This was quite the journey. What started as a small project to refresh the menu turned into a deep rewrite of nearly the entire site. Many improvements were made and annoyances fixed. There are some new features, too. 😉

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@cambecc

7 years

New feature added to : the aurora! Or rather, probability of visible aurora. Produced by OVATION model operated by SWPC / NOAA. Special thanks to @StephHamy820 for writing the data processing script!

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@cambecc

9 months

@IndeedEng I’ve decided to dedicate myself full time to . There is much work to do! In particular, I’m going to explore ways for the site to help fight climate change. More on this in the near future. It’s been an amazing 10 years. Here’s hoping for 10 more. 🎉

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@cambecc

5 years

Time lapse animation of precipitable water for all of 2019. The band of moist air stretching along the equator corresponds to the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). It shifts north during N. Hemisphere summer and then south again during S. Hemisphere summer. (GFS model)

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

4 years

what is going on here

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

8 years

is 3 years old this week! 🎉 thanks to all the visitors 🌏🌎🌍 you help keep this project fun and rewarding to work on 😃

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@cambecc

5 years

This is a short story about WebGL and how it exploded my brain a few years ago. For performance, I decided to re-implement the color overlay of using a WebGL fragment shader.

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@cambecc

7 years

#Ophelia from formation to landfall as modeled by the GFS. Forecast starts 10/15 12:00 UTC. Watch lower left corner.

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@cambecc

4 years

Rebuilding the interface of was more time consuming and difficult than I thought. Lots of new stuff and lessons learned. Going to build a thread of features/insights/pitfalls I encountered along the way. Maybe someone out there will find it useful.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

9 years

Hurricane #Patricia is so powerful the animation breaks down.

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@cambecc

8 years

Time lapse animation of CO2 surface concentration over 7 month period. Data: NASA GEOS-5.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

6 years

The tweet that launched exactly five years ago. Had no idea the impact this project would have. Book and journal covers, TV appearances, conferences, collaborations with scientists, and most importantly: a dedicated fan base. Sincerely, thank you!

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

earth.nullschool.net

Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

11 years

http://t.co/4B3cbB23fR: an animated map of global wind conditions

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@cambecc

8 years

One year time lapse of ocean wave height, from 2015/04/28 to 2016/04/28. Full video:

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@cambecc

4 years

Been wanting to do this for a long time and it's finally here! Nitrogen Dioxide surface concentration added to using free data from the @CopernicusECMWF CAMS model. NO2 is a contributor to air pollution. Select "Chem" mode to see:

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@cambecc

8 years

e.n.n now using webgl for smooth rendering of rotating globe. Weather data is float texture; projected and colorized in fragment shader.

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@cambecc

3 years

Wildfires 🔥 are detected by satellites several times per day, globally. When conditions are right, we can see fires in astonishing detail, all the way down to individual fire fronts and their intensities. This is what Siberia looks like, today. data: #viirs #noaa20 #suomi_npp

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@cambecc

3 years

woooooow taken from my balcony in Tokyo 15 min ago. Quite the light show tonight.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

8 years

I purposefully omit political borders from my map. one planet one people Resist the bastards who want to divide us.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

5 years

Two month time-lapse animation of severe Siberian wildfires between June 1st and Aug 23rd, 2019, visualized using carbon monoxide concentrations modeled by GEOS-5. Fires quickly intensify around 0:25 (~ July 21st).

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@cambecc

5 years

#台風19号 Typhoon Hagibis is heading right for central Japan. Outer rain bands already over Tokyo.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

8 years

Hey @newscomauHQ . Nice iframe. Want to add credit and a link back to my site? I'm paying for your traffic.

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@cambecc

3 years

World on Fire :: this time lapse animation from April to Dec 2021 shows fire hotspot detections (red, orange, & yellow dots) plus carbon monoxide (CO). The devastating Siberian wildfires rotate into view around 0:30 data: GEOS and VIIRS / FIRMS

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@cambecc

7 years

New features: PM 1, PM 2.5, and PM 10 from @CopernicusECMWF CAMS model. More details here:

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

11 years

Ocean surface currents in near real-time. Data from the OSCAR project, updated every 5 days. http://t.co/WcAv1BjhvD http://t.co/075MR2zOTY

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@cambecc

4 years

If you have a few moments, I would really appreciate your feedback about by filling out this user survey. Your answers will help me make improvements and decide the future direction of the site. Thanks! 🌏🌍🌎

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

earth.nullschool.net

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

5 years

~ wow ~ Surface wind conditions over the US:

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

3 years

New feature! Ultraviolet Index (risk of harm from unprotected sun exposure due to the strength of sunburn-producing UV radiation) 5 day forecast in 1 hour steps updated daily. Click "UVI" in the menu: Source: Climate Prediction Center / NCEP / NWS / NOAA

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

3 years

World on Fire, pt 7 🔥 Final time lapse of the series: carbon monoxide over South and East Asia, Apr-Dec 2021. It's us. We surround ourselves with fire: in our homes, vehicles, factories, power plants. Combined, the combustion of fossil fuels is an unrelenting global inferno.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

4 years

This refresh also begins a strong commitment to accessibility. The original design followed none of the best practices, making the site difficult to use with keyboards, screen readers, etc. Still a long way to go, but hopefully the door has been opened for all to enjoy.

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@cambecc

7 years

time lapse of Carbon Monoxide @ surface, 2017-01-15 to 2017-03-01, from NASA's GEOS-5 model

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@cambecc

4 years

New feature: sea ice! A small palette adjustment uncovers sea ice data that was there all along. Select SST (Sea Surface Temp) and the ice pops into view. Image shows North Pole ice cap on Sep 15, 2020, the day of min sea ice extent for that year.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

9 months

After 9.5 years, I have recently left my job at @IndeedEng . It truly was a privilege to manage several teams of wonderful, talented engineers who I already miss, united in the mission to help people get jobs. Good luck to all my colleagues as we part ways. Instead…

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

11 years

http://t.co/4B3cbB23fR: an animated map of global wind conditions

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

earth.nullschool.net

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@cambecc

4 years

Hurricane Laura is so strong it causes the particle animation to break down around the eye because the wind fields are so intensely curved.

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@cambecc

3 years

World on Fire, pt 5 🔥 This time lapse shows fire hotspots (red, orange, yellow dots) plus carbon monoxide over South America from Jun to Dec 2021. Notice wind patterns tend to concentrate pollution into the center of the continent, particularly Bolivia and Paraguay, in Sept.

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

10 years

Earth is not amused. http://t.co/QKoVtamHHi http://t.co/s3Ydnyj35U

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@cambecc

10 years

New: Ocean Waves: significant wave height, peak wave period, and a new animation type. http://t.co/HGhnF9WgTY http://t.co/93Gx51IQPi

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

7 years

current status #台風18号

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

11 years

世界中の風速状況がビジュアライズ http://t.co/k1dWD5lrVs #d3js #dataviz http://t.co/uGhVrTNXiM

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@cambecc

8 years

New feature! now has HD (high-def) mode. Enables GFS 0.25° data plus per pixel rendering.

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@cambecc

4 years

Today is the 10-year anniversary of the 9.1 Mw Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. Here's my favorite data viz of the event. Lots of encoded variables and impactful use of sound. The event starts around 1m 45s.

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@cambecc

5 years

Global student climate strike happening right now. Over 2000+ events across the planet. Here's a map showing their locations superimposed on current CO2 concentration. (event location data: @Fridays4future ) #ClimateStrike #FridaysForFuture

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@cambecc

3 years

World on Fire, pt 3 🔥 This animation shows the devastating Siberian wildfires of 2021. Red, orange, & yellow dots are hotspots detected by satellite. Carbon monoxide, an invisible pollutant, is shown looking a lot like smoke. Gets really bad from 0:15. data: GEOS, VIIRS / FIRMS

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@cambecc

8 years

#TD9 development to Aug 31, then +5 day GFS fcst showing sfc winds then wind power density.

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@cambecc

11 years

The winds 17 mi up are fast, loopy and strange. Looking down on the north pole: http://t.co/GTO7GILShs #d3js #dataviz http://t.co/aivNIjz8gF

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@cambecc

10 years

台風８号、7月10日09:00の風力エネルギー密度予報。 http://t.co/oFkQAb6upV http://t.co/5M6VEMmHmC

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@cambecc

5 years

#台風15号 Typhoon Faxai is heading right for Tokyo (the green circle). Winds and rain have already picked up here along Sumida-gawa.

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@cambecc

5 years

@fhuysmans @steltenpower Here are the previous four years on the same day. Fires occur every year, of course. This year, the number of fires is considered much higher than normal.

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@cambecc

4 years

New feature for : turn off bilinear interpolation to see the underlying raw data points. When set to "none", the data points are rendered as rectangles centered on the exact coords for each point. (ok, technically this is nearest neighbor interpolation...)

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@cambecc

8 years

CO2 surface concentration for the full year 2016, as modeled by GEOS-5. YouTube: e.n.n:

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@cambecc

8 years

so strange. nature doesn't seem to respect political borders. wonder why that is.

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@cambecc

3 years

Found this topographic map of dwarf planet Ceres on wikipedia. Made a quick hack to the fragment shader to render any equirectangular image onto the globe.

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@cambecc

8 years

flat earthers love the Azimuthal Equidistant projection because it "proves" their case, so changed it to show Antarctica centered by default

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@cambecc

9 years

Extremely dangerous Cat 5 #Winston over Fiji. Image shows wind power density at 1000 hPa.

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@cambecc

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@cambecc

9 years

New: atmospheric chemistry overlays, updated every 3 hours: CO Sfc Concentration SO₂ Sfc Mass http://t.co/qR33RbVhDq http://t.co/JY5M6obFnU

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@cambecc

3 years

Woah... 16k moon texture is *amazing*

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@cambecc

10 years

The Misery Index (MI) combines wind chill and heat index to show what the air feels like: http://t.co/ARVCEyo4AS http://t.co/MDjKZrr4yB

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@cambecc

3 years

World on Fire, pt 2 :: this time lapse shows fire hotspots (red, orange, yellow dots) plus carbon monoxide from Apr to Dec 2021. Seasonal agricultural burns in Africa are prominent, but growing intensity of fires in South America starts at 0:40. data: GEOS and VIIRS / FIRMS

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@cambecc

9 years

#snowzilla stomping on the US East Coast. View of 500 hPa winds (~5km altitude).

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@cambecc

5 years

Striking difference in detail before and after the new FV3 dynamical core GFS upgrade. These wind field images are one forecast step (3 hours) apart, straddling the moment when FV3 was put into production.

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@cambecc

7 years

DailyMail sharticle could care less it's been banned from iframe embed of all day.

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@cambecc

6 years

Hey @vampireweekend : thanks for using my site in your new video! Really! I'm a fan. 😀 Saw you at Fuji Rock in 2013. But would've been nice if you'd asked or gave credit... ☹️ This is my hobby. @arzE @arielrechtshaid

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

earth.nullschool.net

Vampire Weekend

@vampireweekend

6 years

Sunflower

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@cambecc

8 years

Path of Hurricane Matthew shown using GFS sfc winds. After 2016-10-04 12:00Z, the anim uses *forecast* data. Actual path will likely differ.

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@cambecc

4 years

The coronavirus tracker on @nytimes is a nice and succinct summary of infection trends. My one complaint: the arrowheads do not point in the direction of the trend. They always point directly to the right, creating an impression that all trends are flattening out.

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@cambecc

10 years

Wow. So this just happened. めざましテレビ http://t.co/lTt3wOPon3

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@cambecc

3 years

🔥 Fascinating progression of fire fronts from a cluster of Siberian wildfires over the past 2 weeks. Dark red -> yellow represents small -> big fires. Grey is burn area. Vert scale is about 50 km / 30 mi. That grey line is a river (the Aldan). data: #viirs #noaa20 #suomi_npp

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@cambecc

8 years

New translations: Français, Português, Русский, Čeština, 中文 (简体). Available from menu.

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@cambecc

8 years

#AtmosphericRiver sweeping over the US west coast. Stretches all the way from Hawaii.

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@cambecc

9 years

Strong El Niño settling in. Visualization comparing SSTA a year ago with today. http://t.co/E192rRfip2 http://t.co/rglsCd2KyP

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@cambecc

8 years

Onboard @TaraExpeditions for two days, from Nagoya to Yokohama. Tara is on a two year expedition to study coral reefs.

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@cambecc

4 years

#1 interactive color scale The new menu contains an interactive color scale. "hover" shows the value and "click" sets a cursor that can be moved via keyboard. Cursor is tabbable div that is positioned using "left: x%" so it remains in the right place during menu resize.

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@cambecc

8 years

one month of Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) over Pacific, Indian Oceans. info:

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@cambecc

3 years

World on Fire, pt 6 🔥 Animation of fire hotspots (red, orange, yellow dots) plus carbon monoxide over North America from Jun to Dec 2021. In late June, Lytton BC suffers 49.6 °C / 121.3 °F (!) temps and is destroyed by flame. By Aug, fires choke the skies across Western Canada.

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@cambecc

3 years

A study of the storms and bitter cold that affected Texas in February. Top left: 3-hour precip accumulation Bottom left: surface temp Top right: jetstream Bottom right: polar vortex First attempt at a 4K composite time lapse

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@cambecc

4 years

~~~ Happy #EarthDay ~~~

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Cameron Beccario

@cambecc

5 years

Hi! 👋 Are you an educator who uses earth.nullschool .net in your instruction? I'd love to hear from you! If you have a few moments, please take this survey: . Thanks! 🌐🌏🌍🌎

Educator Survey

Hello! I'm Cameron, the creator of earth.nullschool.net. Since launching the site in late 2013, I've been surprised and thrilled to see it used in educational settings. I'd love to better understand...

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@cambecc

10 years

Sunset in Tokyo while 台風11号 (Halong) passes by. RT @vapokracker http://t.co/k4ZZy0rOJz

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@cambecc

9 years

~Happy Earth Day~ http://t.co/IEyDwVW10i http://t.co/PmBKMOe4ZE

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@cambecc

4 years

Yikes "Misery Index" showing very dangerous wind chills over much of North America.

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@cambecc

5 years

Once the site was deployed with the approximated arcsine function, the user reported the bug as fixed! Curious, I asked the user for their system configuration: AMD/Radeon HD6570 with Windows Vista. Ok sure. I haven't changed the shader code since.

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@cambecc

9 years

More new overlays, from the @NASA GEOS-5 model: Dust thickness SO₄ thickness http://t.co/qeSDKNMJ2O http://t.co/N7k6kwFGQM

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@cambecc

11 years

NICE. RT @bobsyauncle : #CycloneLusi + http://t.co/5Rf7tukBOP + Van Gogh = "Lusi Night" http://t.co/7sS6EeoTC2

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@cambecc

6 years

Waiting for the typhoon #13 hammer to fall on the tokyo/kanto area tonight. In the meantime, we can clearly see that 250 hPa winds have transitioned through peak marmoset.

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@cambecc

7 years

Hurricane Harvey's wind field and precip, from genesis to Aug 25, then continuing to Aug 30 (5 day GFS forecast)

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@cambecc

7 years

Current status. #台風22号

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9 years

~~ Happy New Year ~~ Global view of total precipitable water, Jan 1st, 2016.

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@cambecc

4 years

#2 tooltip contrast ratio Had to compute relative luminance and contrast ratio of the tooltip text against the background to ensure readability

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@cambecc

8 years

I love @CloudFlare . Enabled SSL with a few clicks, and now is secure and supports HTTP/2!

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@cambecc

6 years

Very happy to collaborate with the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering to use imagery for the cover of their new report on greenhouse gas removal.

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

earth.nullschool.net

The Royal Society

@royalsociety

6 years

The UK could be #CarbonNeutral by 2050, meeting its #ParisAgreement targets, according to a new report from The Royal Society and @RAEngNews . Here are 8 technologies and approaches that could be vital (a thread)

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@cambecc

8 years

One year time lapse of SST anomaly showing 2015-2016 El Niño event (with hints of La Niña?)

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@cambecc

3 years

Wildfires detected by VIIRS, an instrument on the NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP satellites, is a new feature on . Data is updated roughly every three hours, sourced from NASA FIRMS. Learn more here: Fires right now:

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@cambecc

6 years

Wow. WOW. This is a beautiful book! Thanks, @kennethfield . #cartographybook

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@cambecc

10 years

North Pacific pretty busy at the moment. http://t.co/WxkKrRUfCR http://t.co/EFoLkXpueK

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