psteinb / citizenscience-climatechange-saxony

repo to version control my tries to vizualize the clime change in Saxony (Germany) since 1961

Visualizing the climate change in Saxony (Germany)

Goal

Prepare an annual temperature variation as shown in

• spiral code
• blobs The author of all of this appears to be Antti Lipponen

Ultimately, I'd love to create a hexmap of Saxony like so and then I'd love to fill the hexagons with temperature deviations from the 1961-1990 median max/min/median temperature and gganimate that.

Data aggregation

• data obtained from DWD CDC server

  • contains 2 folders historical (01.01.1781 - 31.12.2018) or recent

• R package rdwd

  • it's hard to find stations inside a state, used DWD's KL_Monatswerte_Beschreibung_Stationen.txt directly for that and greped for Sachsen

How to use?

I have a decent list of dependencies and the code was only used on Fedora 30 (Linux) so far. I use R for vizualisation. Install the dependencies like so:

install.packages(c("dplyr","gganimate","ggmap","ggplot2","lubridate","rdwd","readr","sf"))

To create the animated gif, do:

$ make prepare #downloads the list of weather stations
$ make animate #performs the 

Want to help?

Please, open an issue or send a PR.