This project was a part of our graduate Visualization for Data Science course through the University of Utah. Our goal was to create an interactive visualization of the weather and climate in Utah. You can find our project here.
- Savanna Wolvin
- Michael Pletcher
The overarching objective of our project is to produce visualizations of the weather and climate in Utah. The benefit of these visualizations is communicating with non-atmospheric scientists climatological trends, how terrain may affect these trends, and the implications towards natural hazards and resources. The questions we plan to answer with these visualizations are:
- What is the climatological distribution of monthly average temperatures and precipitation totals at observation stations across Utah?
- Is there a climatological trend in precipitation and temperature at observation stations across Utah? Is there a decrease in precipitation and an increase in temperatures?
- What is the climatological gradient of precipitation and temperature with elevation by month? How does it vary by season?
- Are there relationships between precipitation and temperature trends with natural resources and the occurrence of natural hazards?
A video description of the visualizations is linked here.