Update: see @ bottom example of a Cyclone (Wikipedia) as they're called in the So. Hemisphere.
Further to our explorations in AI here and to the previous post here, this is a 'conversation' with Copilot, Microsoft Bing's AI extension. Conversation means that you can daisy-chain questions without repeating them, either to extend or to zero in:
Update: so follow-on here with definions and relationsips among these topics
I posted here 3 yrs. ago among a series of DIY map notes to encourage Citizen Science, how to use NOAA global digital elevation data to model sea level rise data on straight geometry. See also here for an explanation referring to East Anglia. Here is what it looks like from the DIY document:
Update: a post in SciTech Daily shows that ocean atmospheric science - shown in this and previous post - is alive and may help with assessing climate change: it's about the doldrums driven by downdrafts not updrafts; at a localized scale, downdrafts were dramatically reported in passenger flight incidents here or the sinking off Sicily of a superyacht here, and updrafts in increasing mid-Atlantic hurricane generation here.
Updates: mapping climate data from historic ships & global harmonization follow respectively here & here.
"You can get Andrew outa maps, but you can't get maps outa Andrew" quipped a GIS map friend when I left Kuwait a dozen years ago... Well after quitting socials, Esri(UK) graciously helped me recover my desktop app. While I lost my story maps and web maps content, I maintained a free dev account - story maps and maps&data - this was chiefly to preserve my Living Atlas content inspired by John Nelson.
This follows an update on this blog here.
We recently rebranded Cottenham.info to Cambridgeshire.ai: the domain name is acquired but page not done yet finished; we have a prospectus as an evergreen document, meaning ever evolving.
Our community involvement over 5 years in March is one object of this blog starting here (follow the links) and listed here. We engaged with various community interest parties at the impact of climate change then the pandemic on social isolation in East Anglia.
Over 1½ yrs. ago Part I said that I left socials and geo work... well not quite! I did quit all activism and will soon return to my family home in France left almost 50 yrs. ago.
I left now by entering the 2023 Story Map competition with "a story about conserving Earth’s lands and waters": East Anglia Fenlands: Peatlands Restoration to mitigate Climate Change sums up my work in East Anglia under Cottenham Open - introduced here 4½ years ago as Local community engagement - you can follow my professional portfolio either at top right of my blog home in desktop mode, or my story map direct.
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21
The last post before peatlands (recent update here) was the East Anglia flood protection infrastructure here - both used extensive Environment Agency data, publicly available if needing some (at time extensive) work as described therein. Here are further DIY resources to create maps like this fun pirate map of East Anglia under 12 m. water est. around 2150AD (from here updated here):
Update: see a follow-on post to sea level rise in East Anglia here.
This is a follow on to this post: lets address one of the update items, Fire & Ice, in the light of an early and vicious start to the Canadian fire season. The question is: notwithstanding this year's events, is there an increase in fires and if so, can they be related to climate change as, say, in California?
Update: a duo of posts on my Medium professional channel here relates my early computing.
As I go through a 'hard reset' in my life and am exiting social media by&large, this may be a good time to pause and reflect on my IT journey.
The #30DayMapChallenge Day 23 challenge is "GHSL data", here is the section in the story map that will chronicle the map challenge when it's finished:
Global Human Settlement for Northstowe controversial development NW of Cambridge UK, monitoring housing probability (GHS-BUILT-S2, 2018) and housing footprint (GHSL-ESM, 2015) against Esri 2020 Land Cover map extract with OpenStreetMap detailed base-map. Various blended overlays 'bake' the layers into a screen pattern allowing to compare and contrast past built areas vs. currently probably built against submissions.
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20
[ Update 5: Community Interest Company re-engagement is here
Update 4: actual Fenlanders interviewed in this fab blog post
Update 3: peatland restoration by numbers, Indonesian example
Update 2: soil degradation and climate change masterclass, TEDtalk pointers
Update: added Why we should all be obsessed with Peatlands at the end of the story map below ]
No. 20! Isn't it fitting that chronicling East Anglia challenges & opportunities w.r.t. climate emergency - risk of flooding, sea level rise, vulnerability indices and now pandemic - uncovered the greatest opportunity yet: returning local peatlands from carbon emitters to original carbon sinks could dwarf any individual effort to mitigate CO2 emissions, currently the major driver of climate change.
[ Update 2: at bottom is the comprehensive water web map that followed this...
Update 1: near the end of the story map, see how you can style your own DEM tiles ]
East Anglia Flood Defences Final showcased in a story map the entire flooding infrastructure framework for the region, both from rising sea levels and risk of flooding, complete w flood defence infrastructure.
Online discussions in the wake of the IPCC 2021 report broadened that scope back to an original posting almost two years ago Sea level rise models show ins&outs of climate change science. Here is that update expanding to England and NW Europe, wrapping in all the lessons learned along the way.
Part I showed how a map of DEFRA open data can help situational awareness for a West Midlands XR event. Having done a sea level rise and risk of flooding map for the Thames River valley near London last year, I redid one now with the lessons learned in the interval. The previous Sea Level Rise map from Open Data was rather onerous: I streamlined the process to simply load free & open data with only GIS styling; the resulting Build your own can be replicated on other GIS with listed data sources.
[ Update: Part II re-uses this and improves the manual for a London area action ]
Part of our mandate at cottenham.info is to raise awareness around climate change issues in East Anglia. A key part is to quantify risks around flooding from land during increasingly variable weather, as well as to predict what sea level rise would look like over time from melting polar ice caps. That combines respectively excellent ground work by DEFRA - see their Future Fens twitter feed - and modelling against topography by Ordnance Survey and DEFRA. And timing of sea level rises is an emotional issue: to balance the reality of the risk with questions around time scales (see comment), will help raise awareness without unduly raising alarm.
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18
[ Update: see post #19 on an opportunity to use land cover information to study peat lands ]
This extends the previous flood defences update into a 3D interactive map. It also explains the DEFRA flood defences data update, in order to map the infrastructure complete with various sea level rise elevations. [Story map full-page here.]
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17
[ Update: the next blogpost extends this into a 3d interactive map wrapping up this 2 years study ]
This closes the trio of updates on sea level rise timelines and infrastructure based on newly available climate change data, since this project started two years ago.
Environment Agency's DEFRA not only manages a comprehensive Risk of Flooding for River and from Sea via ground observations and mapping, but it also manages all the infrastructure related to flood risks from the same.
Let's extend our ongoing mapping effort here to include AIMS Spatial Flood Defences (inc. standardised attributes):
