Thursday, January 02, 2025

The Interactive Climate Atlas

world map using colors to show temperature increases since 1961

The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas is a new interactive map from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (CS3). This map-based application uses historical climate data and modeled future scenarios to visualize the potential impacts of various global heating levels.

climate stripes for UK - a series of colored stripes showing average temperatures for each year since 1940, revealing a pattern of increasing average temperatures

C3S, established by the European Union, aims to provide authoritative information and services that help society understand, adapt to, and mitigate the effects of climate change. The new Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas aligns with this mission by enabling users to explore climate change projections through a range of interactive tools. These tools allow for the geographic visualization of data, analysis of trends over time, and insights through features like climate stripes.

graph showing rising annual average temperatures in the UK since 1940

Select a region on the map using the dropdown menu, then click the "regional information" button to access a variety of visualizations depicting climate change scenarios for the selected area. These visualizations include a time chart, which shows average annual temperature changes for each year since 1940, and a climate stripes chart, offering a clear visual representation of the same data over time.

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