#climate map

[missingalo]

I am insane... But look, climate-accurate Pyrrhia, all because I hated the transition from the ice kingdom to the sand kingdom-

[novakspector]

[robinsonprojection]

Climatic Map of the 4th World (zooming in is preferable, both to read the key and the names of cities)

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

Just getting around to posting these now that it's been weeks since I sent them in, but here's my second series of maps for @jayrockin‘s Runaway to the Stars project! This is the home planet of their Avian species of aliens, and being predominantly ocean-covered and having an obliquity of only 11 degrees, these factors result in a somewhat more stable, less seasonally variable climate than we see on Earth. Every image here is helpfully (hopefully) captioned, but for a quick summary, these maps represent the elevation data (with and without a color gradient and water systems); the seasonal ice extent (limited to the Equinoxes and an Annual Average since the Winter and Summer sea-ice extents aren’t that different and there’s very little land ice outside the poles); and maps showing the Average Annual Temperature, Total Annual Precipitation, a combination of the two along with a key, and, finally, a map broken down into distinct zones based on temperature and precipitation, ice cover, mountains, seasonality, and Continentality vs Oceanity, based loosely on the Trewartha climate classification system. Digital Painting (Photopea) 2022 Higher resolution copies of these maps can be found in my Reddit post about this : )

[solomonscompass]

In addition to my handmade maps, I also create climate maps based on the Köppen Climate Classification system!

you can check me out at solomonscompass.com and on Etsy, Instagram, and Facebook.

[goingtiny]

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America for centuries.

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers modeled the human climate “niche”: the regions where temperature and precipitation have been most suitable for humans to live in over the past 6,000 years.

In the United States, that niche today blankets the heart of the country, from the Atlantic seaboard through northern Texas and Nebraska, and the California coast.

But as the climate warms, the niche could shift drastically northward. Under even a moderate carbon emissions scenario (known as RCP 4.5), by 2070 much of the Southeast becomes less suitable and the niche shifts toward the Midwest.

In the case of extreme warming (represented as RCP 8.5), the niche moves sharply toward Canada, leaving much of the lower half of the U.S. too hot or dry for the type of climate humans historically have lived in. Both scenarios suggest massive upheavals in where Americans currently live and grow food.

[missingalo]

Okay, not AS good as the last one, but in order for this heckin continent to have the biomes it does, ONE: It's significantly smaller than Pyrrhia, and TWO: It would have to be near the equator.

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

After nearly a month of research and rendering, I finally finished my second ever map commission! I created this for @Dilophoraptor, who hired me to finalize and add biomes to his own original map of an alternate reality Earth, with a geological history that diverged from our own right before Pangaea split apart.  This mapmaking project was my first time assigning biomes with any degree of accuracy. To figure where they all belonged, I first had to map out the annual average temperature, annual average precipitation, and some of the topography of this world, which required so much research in and of itself, and I learned a lot of useful information from it.