[Article] Hex bin plot from IPCC Summary for Policy Makers 2021

[rolyp]

Subtasks

• Identify datasets for the two figures proposed below
• Complete licensing information below
• Source code/programming language info

Publication

Publication title & proposed article

IPCC Summary for Policy Makers 2021
IPCC Summary for Policy Makers 2022

The Summary for Policy Makers IPCC reports from 2021 and 2022 have some nice figures that could be used to illustrate a “data transparent” dashboard for policy makers. For example:

• Fig. SPM.3 (2021)
• Fig. SPM.4 (2022)

Link to publication

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/

Name of journal/magazine/publisher

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Year of publication

2021, 2022

Licence for publication

Other open licence

Data

Link to data used in the publication

⚠️ The term “data” is used in the loosest possibly interpretation of all time for Fig. SPM.3 (WG1) and Fig. SPM.4 (WG2). The spreadsheets and CSV files have qualitative info in categories.

• Fig. SPM.3:
  • Data: https://doi.org/10.5285/dc6c126c95b1445d8e66d6b9f62054d4 // https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/dc6c126c95b1445d8e66d6b9f62054d4 (Not accessible behind Mullvad VPN)
  • Metadata: https://ipcc-browser.ipcc-data.org/browser/dataset/676/0
• Fig. SPM.4:
  • Fig. SPM.4 (a): (Under “Data download”) https://ipcc-browser.ipcc-data.org/browser/dataset/5916/0
  • Fig. SPM.4 (b): (Under “Data download”) https://ipcc-browser.ipcc-data.org/browser/dataset/5917/0

Data availability

Available publicly under an open-access licence

Contact for data

[email protected]

Dataset topic(s)

Sea level rise

Data format(s)

CSV files

Dataset size

(Small) Less than 1 MB

Source code

Link to code used for the publication

Not found!

Code availability

All rights reserved

Programming language

N/A

Visualisations

Summary of visualisation(s)

Line charts (others TBD)

Other comments

New features required by Fluid

Any other comments?

No response

[rolyp]

@RaoOfPhysics Bumped this to In Progress, mentioned the two example figures we discussed and added a couple of todos.

[rolyp]

Also just remembered that UoB has had some significant presence on IPCC, so those people they may be worth talking to about this project.

[RaoOfPhysics]

Datasets found! It was easy for Fig. SPM.3, because it was linked below the graphic. Using that metadata, I was able to also find the data for Fig. SPM.4. :)

[RaoOfPhysics]

Another option to consider might be to reproduce other plots (from the main report rather than the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM)): https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/figures

Particularly, the Atlas figures: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/figures/atlas/

Because their code documentation is quite good (to put it mildly): https://github.com/IPCC-WG1/Atlas

And all of the main report’s chapters are also seemingly well-documented: https://github.com/orgs/IPCC-WG1/repositories

[RaoOfPhysics]

I’m still laughing at how WG2 have released their “data” for SPM.4. 🤣

Back to the drawing board GitHub repos.

[RaoOfPhysics]

Same goes for WG1’s SPM.3. Eek.

[RaoOfPhysics]

@rolyp, I’m so pleased with this, check it out!

This is regarding IPCC AR6 WG1 Chapter 6 Figure 6.19. The data and code are available here: https://github.com/IPCC-WG1/Chapter-6_Fig19. And here is my fork: https://github.com/RaoOfPhysics/IPCC-AR6-WG1-Ch6-Fig19.

I played around a little with the .csv files in R and (using GitHub Pages and symlinks) managed to get it up on the web: https://raoofphysics.github.io/IPCC-AR6-WG1-Ch6-Fig19/

It has literally no explanation at this stage, but is just an exploration of the variables. There’s a tonne of interesting information there that is completely absent from the visualisation, and I think we can explore this in detail. I’ll explain in more detail on Monday, but just wanted to share this as I’m quite excited now. :D

[rolyp]

Ok, this sounds great! I'm travelling to Cambridge Sunday night (rather than Monday morning as I usually do) so I'll be in the office by 9ish. Speak then :)

[RaoOfPhysics]

I’ve updated the web page. Spent too much time trying to force R to my will without luck (problem was with me, not R). However, I think we’re good to go in terms of thinking what we need to implement in Fluid.

[rolyp]

Ok that’s great. I think we’ll need to manage with a hand-generated dataset for a while but other than that it sounds like we can start porting to Fluid.

[rolyp]

Dropped to “Planned” and extracted new task for #38