{"id":5695,"date":"2023-03-06T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2023-03-14T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:55:51","slug":"climate-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=5695","title":{"rendered":"Climate Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of months I have been writing code in Google Earth Engine (GEE).&nbsp; For those that don&#8217;t know what GEE is &#8211; in brief is a database of satellite imagery and a code window to create a run scripts. Data can be uploaded to the GEE platform, and exported (downloaded).&nbsp; The database of satellite imagery includes recent (today) and historical data (as far back as 1972) depending to the type of satellite. Landsat data is continuous from 1972 &#8211; current, Sentinel 1 (2014- current), Sentinel-2 (2016-current), and other satellites have shorter time periods (2000-current). In essence, the availability of historical data provides a means to &#8220;move back&#8221; in time, where as the current and yet-to be collected data provides a means to move forward in time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5698\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?attachment_id=5698#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5698\" class=\" wp-image-5698\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT_Air_Trend.png\" alt=\"Air temperature Trend (2000-2020)\" width=\"636\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT_Air_Trend.png 904w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT_Air_Trend-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT_Air_Trend-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT_Air_Trend-695x510.png 695w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT_Air_Trend-204x150.png 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air temperature Trend (2000-2020)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this post I will demonstrate a couple of GEE Mapping Tools that I created in GEE to illustrate 20 year Trends (2000-2020) in Air Temperature, Snowfall\/snow depth\/density\/temperature, &nbsp;and Lake ice-temperatures across the NWT.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5700\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?attachment_id=5700#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5700\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT-_Snow_Sum.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT-_Snow_Sum.png 497w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT-_Snow_Sum-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NWT-_Snow_Sum-201x150.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NWT Snowfall Trend (2000-2020)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Click on the links below to view the Mapping Tool<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz68.users.earthengine.app\/view\/temperature-trends-part-1\">NWT Climate Trends Mapping Tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz68.users.earthengine.app\/view\/snow-trends\">NWT Snow Trends Mapping Tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz68.users.earthengine.app\/view\/lake-trends\">NWT Lake Trends Mapping Tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of months I have been writing code in Google Earth Engine (GEE).&nbsp; For those that don&#8217;t know what GEE is &#8211; in brief is a database of satellite imagery and a code window to create a run scripts. Data can be uploaded to the GEE platform, and exported (downloaded).&nbsp; The database of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1501,1504,1416,1503,1502],"class_list":["post-5695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change-indicators","tag-climate-trends","tag-gee","tag-google-earth-engine","tag-nwt-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}