Australian Drought News Map
In a grand convergence of my two current hobbies (drought and Google maps), Malcolm points to a cool new product by the Australian ABC: a Google map of all of their drought coverage.
Archive of posts filed under the maps category.
A Google Map (or not)
No Plagues Today
No Plagues Today Originally uploaded by Malcolm Tredinnick. Malcolm caught this. Click through if you can’t read the fine print.
The Fundamental Issue
This map from Platts says it all. You can’t make a dent in greenhouse gas emissions without tackling the China problem.
Daybook
reading: Em Hall’s High and Dry, a classic on New Mexico water that’s one of those books that everyone says you should read. I am. paper of the day: ENSO as a mediator of the solar influence on climate, Julien Emile-Geay and colleagues, in paleoceanography last month: “ENSO may plausibly have acted as a mediator …
Powell’s Grand Canyon Map
Powell’s Grand Canyon Map Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Our Map of the Week is a treasure from the Library of Congress: One of John Wesley Powell’s original Grand Canyon maps, made on completion of his survey work there in 1871-72. This is part of the Library’s amazing American Memory map collection.
Report on Nothing Terribly New
Tom Yulsman, in the comments below, raises an interesting question about yesterday’s release of the National Research Council Colorado River report: [N]othing in the NRC report sounded terribly new. We knew that droughts much worse than what we’ve experienced in the last 100 years have occurred in the past, we knew that the river is …
Mapping Soil Moisture Anomalies
One useful measure of drought/pluvial conditions is soil moisture, which is critical both for non-irrigated farming and natural ecosystems. Today’s map is from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, which publishes a host of map products intended to illustrate what’s going on. Note that the map I’ve chosen does not represent absolute soil moisture, which is available …
IPCC Precipitation Map
IPCC Precipitation Map Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. By what seems like a series of coincidences (or not?), I’ve been reading and writing and trying to write lately about maps – the information in them, the things cartographers leave out of them, their implications for understanding things about the world around us, and also the choices …