Ocean Warming Stripes / / No Comments These Ocean Warming Stripes show the alarming extent to which average global sea surface temperatures have risen in the 21st Century, compared to the norm of annual global temperatures dating back to 1850. In the visualization, each year since 1850 is represented by a colored stripe. The color of each stripe is determined by the average global sea surface temperature. As you can see, there has Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Ocean, Stripes, warming
Have You Earned Your Air Pollution Stripes? / / No Comments Ed Hawkins’ Climate Stripes visualization of global heating has quickly become a data visualization classic. Climate Stripes (sometimes known as Warming Stripes) are a visual representation of the long-term increase in global temperatures due to climate change. Ed’s striking Climate Stripes visualizations consist of colored vertical stripes, with each stripe representing a single year and Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Earned, Pollution, Stripes
Population Stripes / / No Comments Julien Gaffuri, a cartographer at Eurostat, has created an interactive map which allows you to place stripes of any size and orientation on a map of Europe and discover the percentage of the continent’s population living within the area covered by the stripe.Julien’s Population Stripe map uses population data from the statistical office of the European Union, and provides some very iinteresting Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Population, Stripes