Beautiful visualization of wind currents on Earth

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Don't forget to click on the bottom-left button and check the different options.

Example of a high altitude with temperature:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/ove...

And many different projections, Stereographic is awesome:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/over...

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/o...

Please someone make this as an app for a desktop background!

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I found this option for total cloud water[0] and the checked the weather in France[1]. Pretty useful.

[0]:http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/o...

[1]:http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/France.htm

[ebahnx]

Desktop background would be amazing.

[nkuttler]

Beautiful. Reminds me of how I used to run xplanet as live desktop with bump and cloud maps (updated every few hours), accurate stellar background, etc. I wonder if there's something similar, more modern, with more possible data feeds.

[act9]

Previous Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6924854

[tibbon]

This looks great. I just wish it didn't have to completely refresh when you turn the earth. Maybe in V2 :)

[cambecc]

Hi. I'm the creator of the site. Unfortunately, each time the globe orientation changes, the distortion caused by the projection needs to be recalculated. Tried to think of ways to make this faster or save computations, but haven't found any good solutions yet.

[cs02rm0]

Amazing. I've been tracking a delivery (Seiki 4k monitor incidentally) which I believe is currently on this flight: http://www.flightradar24.com/ABX2040

It always looks as though the course they take is unnecessarily far north. I have to consciously remind myself that the map projection and the prevailing winds play a factor. This really does beautifully illustrate why they take the route they do.

[mxfh]

This is not far north because of winds, it's just the shortest line!

Great circle distance (Curves in Mercator, straight lines on globe) vs. Rhumb lines (Straight in Mercator, constant course angle against meridians)

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ComparingLoxodromesAndGrea...

[edit] added picture for explanation

http://i.imgur.com/wJS0ry1.png

Lines of same color have identical course

[kzrdude]

The map projection on google maps is only chosen to produce good maps at every point by themselves (square city blocks will still be square, wherever you zoom in). I assume they would have chosen a different design (a globe) if they designed it to be used as a world map service.

[kfk]

Some days ago I posted this: http://scalgo.com/live/global

It's modelling all the water flow levels in the world using very detailed GPS data. I mean, you can model a sea raise or a river level raise.

I didn't even get 1 point. OK, design isn't as cool as this wind one, but I think it deserved a bit more love since they process a crap ton of terrain data for the water flow modelling...

[ubershmekel]

It's hard to give credit for something indiscernible.

[benjoffe]

This is a very similar style to parts of this incredible visualisation of Earth weather http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COWE6sMzdqI

[T-zex]

Well done! Interestingly there is a tornado like structure in the Crimean area.

[mxfh]

other than that this beautiful web-app gets constantly updated with new data like

Relative Humidity [%], Air Density [kg/m3], and Wind Power Density [kW/m2]

https://twitter.com/cambecc/status/438674275285757952

here is the obligatory link to the old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6924854

[danmaz74]

This REALLY blew my mind. The the "Earth" menu at the bottom left - you can see sea currents, temperature map, winds at different heights... terrific.

[sivetic]

GitHub sources: https://github.com/cambecc/earth

[boyaka]

Noticed this tool on suspicious0bservers youtube channel a while back. He uses several tools daily to monitor earth and solar weather:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers

[snake_plissken]

This is amazing! What is being used for geocoding IP addresses? It's one of the more accurate returns I have come across in quite some time.

Also, how live is this data? If the data is live enough, this could be immensely useful for small-craft off-shore fishing.

All around, superb work!

[dewey]

This is awesome. Is there a better way to zoom out than to click on "Earth" and choose another projection to reset the zoom level?

Edit: Wasn't working before, Chrome restart fixed it. My bad.

[delinka]

Try mouse scroll.

[eevilspock]

on my mac the scroll gesture works for zoom in and out.

[eegilbert]

This is lovely, but I believe it's a copy of an earlier visualization by Viégas and Wattenberg: http://hint.fm/wind

[mrfusion]

Do ocean currents follow these same lines?

[kaivi]

Take the Antarctic Circumpolar Current or the Gulf Stream: looks like the wind defines ocean currents.

[Link-]

Aesthetics aside, how accurate is this?

[g3orge]

wait. is this live? anything similar for clouds?

[cambecc]

what the hell? why was this post deleted?