WILDFIRES AND FLOOD DAMAGE
Posted by Armando Brito Mendes | Filed under infogramas \ dashboards, mapas SIG's, relatórios, visualização
Um excelente relatório, muito dinâmico e com muitos mapas
Linking the devastating 2021 fires and floods in British Columbia
A Sparkgeo Story Map by Gordon Logie
2021 was a very damaging year for the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC), with the weather exacting a heavy toll. A record-breaking heat wave led into a severe wildfire season. Following these, an extreme winter rainfall event led to catastrophic flood damage which cascaded through the Canadian economy, disrupting major arteries for travel and trade.
Here at Sparkgeo, we are interested in the role that geospatial technology can play to help commercial organizations, municipalities, and the general public adapt to the challenges of a changing climate.
We believe that geospatial technologies can help not only to assess the damage from climate disasters, but also help reveal the underlying geographical factors which contribute to where and why damage occurs. This type of analysis may enable models to predict a particular location’s exposure to climate-related risk factors.
To explore this further, we present a research project examining linkages between the wildfires and subsequent flood damage in 2021
Tags: história, incêndios, inundações, mapas
Cold, heat, fires, hurricanes andtornadoes: The year in weather disasters
Posted by Armando Brito Mendes | Filed under infogramas \ dashboards, relatórios, visualização
Uma boa (e longa) história contada com mapas dinâmicos e muitas fotos
By Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz Updated Dec. 17 at 12:30 p.m.Originally published Dec. 15, 2021
Vicious wind and tornadoes put a deadly exclamation point on the end of an extraordinary year for extreme weather in the United States.
Earlier in 2021, Texas froze and Seattle roasted. Parts of California flooded, burned, then flooded again. A hurricane that slammed Louisiana was so waterlogged that its remnants inundated New York City. A blizzard hit Hawaii.
The weather was wilder than usual this year, and the reasons vary, climate experts say.
Crazy cold snap? Giant hail? December tornadoes? Those happen now and then on a planet with natural variations in weather patterns.
But evidence increasingly shows that historic heat waves, monster rain events and ultra-intense storms are exacerbated by the warmer air and water of our overheating planet.
Tags: furacões, inundações, tempestades
