{"id":8017,"date":"2016-08-19T15:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T19:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2019-01-10T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:18:00","slug":"awesome-interactive-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/awesome-interactive-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome interactive maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always interested in new ways to display weather and climate data. \u00a0Here are a couple of recent web sites that allow you zoom to different spatial scales and choose from a lot of different variables.<\/p>\n<p>Geo Awesomeness described a new weather mapping site called Ventusky.com which allows you to look at many different variables including animated winds. \u00a0You can read about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/geoawesomeness.com\/every-weather-forecast-map-look-like\/\">https:\/\/geoawesomeness.com\/every-weather-forecast-map-look-like\/<\/a> or visit directly at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ventusky.com\/?p=33.8;-83.4;4&amp;l=temperatur\">https:\/\/www.ventusky.com\/?p=33.8;-83.4;4&amp;l=temperatur<\/a>e.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (my alma mater) has a new web site and apps called <em>RealEarth<\/em> which allow you to combine satellite imagery with radar and other variables. \u00a0You can see the site at https:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they say about the site, with links to the apps:<\/p>\n<p>Just released IOS and Android SSEC Realearth apps have been released:<\/p>\n<p>iOS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z9gQ6BXxpm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/z9gQ6BXxpm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android: <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=edu.wisc.ssec.realearth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>RealEarth provides access to real-time imagery and data products hosted by the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and others. These products include global and regional remotely sensed atmospheric, terrestrial, and oceanographic imagery, observations of local meteorological parameters and short-range predictions of future conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Select products to display by category, name, and time<br \/>\n&#8211; Pan and zoom map interface dynamically<br \/>\n&#8211; Display current location on map<br \/>\n&#8211; Adjust transparency and composite multiple layers<br \/>\n&#8211; Animate by relative or absolute time steps<br \/>\n&#8211; Save custom favorites<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/realearth-small-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8037\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/realearth-small-logo.jpg\" alt=\"realearth small logo\" width=\"275\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/realearth-small-logo.jpg 275w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/realearth-small-logo-196x138.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always interested in new ways to display weather and climate data. \u00a0Here are a couple of recent web sites that allow you zoom to different spatial scales and choose from a lot of different variables. Geo Awesomeness described a new weather mapping site called Ventusky.com which allows you to look at many different variables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16382,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/16382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}