Woodwell Risk data viewer

The purpose of this site is to increase public access to climate risk data while showcasing some of the datasets the Risk group uses to communicate climate risk to the communities and external partners it works with.

Data sources

Water stress

• Drought index [NEX-GDDP-CMIP6]
• Annual precipitation [NEX-GDDP-CMIP6]

Wildfires

• Wildfire danger days [NEX-GDDP-CMIP6]

Temperature

• Annual mean temperature [NEX-GDDP-CMIP6]
• Hot days (days over 90°F) [NEX-GDDP-CMIP6]
• Lethal heat [Woodwell]
• Warm nights (nights over 20°C) [NEX-GDDP-CMIP6]

Coastal risk

• Sea level rise depth value [NASA, Hammond et al. (2021)]
• Tropical cyclone return period [STORM]

Processing steps

Vector data

Our boundary files came from Natural Earth. So far, we have used:

• 10m land and ocean boundaries [link]
• 10m country- and state-level boundaries [link].

All SHP files were converted to GeoJSON format in GeoPandas. From there, we used Tippecanoe to convert the GeoJSON files to Mapbox .mbtiles format and used the Mapbox tool mbutil to convert those tiles to .pbf format.

Raster data

For back-end data analysis/transformation of NetCDF and TIF files, we used Python and R. Those rasters were then converted to Zarr pyramids using CarbonPlan's ndpyramid package.

Acknowledgements

This site's interface and functionality rely heavily on code developed by CarbonPlan. Specifically, we used the maps, components, and layouts libraries. We took inspiration from CarbonPlan's forest-risks-web code repository to create an updated and modified user interface for this data viewer. Additionally, we modified the <ExpandingSection /> component from the prototype-maps repository. You can read more about CarbonPlan's research and software development work here.

This repository contains code from the CarbonPlan components package. Copyright (c) 2020 CarbonPlan, distributed under a MIT License.

This repository contains code from the CarbonPlan maps package. Copyright (c) 2021 CarbonPlan, distributed under a MIT License.

This repository contains code from the CarbonPlan layouts package. Copyright (c) 2021 CarbonPlan, distributed under a MIT License.

This repository contains code from the CarbonPlan prototype-maps package. Copyright (c) 2021 CarbonPlan, distributed under a MIT License.