Climate Integration

The artwork uses weather and climate related data, collected in real time from a number of available sources, including data published by NASA, NOAA, and the UN. The artwork transforms these data streams into light, color, animation, and movement through the artwork programming, running on custom software.

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Real world data is collected in real time by the artwork systems, providing the artwork with up-to-the-moment observations of weather and climate conditions and events, near and far.

 

Satellite imagery and data published by NASA's EarthData Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) offer a detailed view of atmospheric conditions, temperature and land vegetation indices, glacier conditions, and ocean temperature and salinity, amongst many other data points.

 

The NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) reports oceans conditions using an international network of land- and buoy-based sensors, offering a real-time (with updates as frequently as every 5 minutes) view of ocean conditions around the world.

 

Sentiment analysis of subject-related news and journal publications, performed in aggregate, allow for a snapshot view of how the climate and climate crisis are being talked about locally and globally. 

 

Text analysis of the United Nations' Climate Reports, a leading source of information regarding the climate crisis, provides highly reputable data pertaining to humanities ongoing attempts to slow and reverse the climate crisis.