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Climatecast.me - Speculative meteorology, Post-fictional weather forecasts
Instead of forecasting the weather for today or tomorrow, Climatecast.me propels viewers 50 years forward and returns a projection for several decades into the future. Drawing from a selection of climate models downscaled by NASA, it gives us a glimpse into a possible climate future based on a selection of given scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway). As we all know, climate does not equal weather, and climate models aren't weather models, so this is far from any reliable forecast the tool is not meant to provide accurate predictions, but rather a new way to engage with climate model data. By providing this arbitrary non-scientific entry point we bring models and data back into the realm of everyday experience to make complex earth systems and general circulation models more accessible and inspire a broader understanding and discussion of our planet's future and the issues that shape it.
ALL DATA SOURCES
NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6)
(Downscaled climate model data),
Global monthly gridded atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations under the historical and future scenarios
(CO2 Projections),
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (CO2 measurements and trends)
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (Current Weather and forecasts),
GeoNames (Geocoding),
Nominatim/OpenStreetMap (Reverse Geocoding),
Maxmind GeoLite2 Free Geolocation Data (IP Geolocation)
CREDITS
Climate scenarios used were from the NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 dataset, prepared by the
Climate Analytics Group and NASA Ames Research Center using the NASA Earth
Exchange and distributed by the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS),
https://www.nccs.nasa.gov/services/data-collections/land-based-products/nex-gddp-cmip6
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
Self-hosted across Austria, France and Germany - STWST, La Palanquée, Hetzner
SSP: What is an SSP?
Read more about Shared Socioeconomic Pathways.
What are climate models?
Read more about Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects (CMIP) and
How climate models work.
READ MORE:
Climate and Weather at 3 Degrees More. Earth as We Don’t (Want to) Know It (2024)
Andrew Dana Hudson: Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (2022)
IPCC Sixth Assesment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (2021)
Paul N. Edwards: A Vast Machine. Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010)
An experimental service by ./m.ash.to, 2024