Also worth noting, as the instrument is on the ISS, it’s ground coverage will be limited to ±53 degrees or so. Much of my birth province of Alberta in Canada will escape scrutiny from this, including the oil sands projects. Hopefully a successor to this ends up in a polar orbiting mission.
Now that I’ve had a look, it’s still very preliminary and a very limited dataset. It will be interesting to keep an eye on this for further data releases.
That Ground site is interesting. I wonder how I’ve managed to avoid running across it before.
Thanks for this summary. It was appreciated.
The recorded high temperature in Coatzacoalcos for June 2023 was 39C on June 11. Someone in the local paper decided to play with “feels like” numbers.
I went data hunting. The full PDF is here:
https://zenodo.org/record/6196131
Page 57 contains the southern map I was looking for. The full document contains much more information, and is less geographically limited.
Lots to read!
Revising my original post 😉
The content of the graphic is quite interesting but suffers from a few flaws that are unfortunately common in papers.
Australia looks invisible because the colour choices were likely made to highlight the routes of the high profile species in the North Pacific and Atlantic. If you look at the individual species at the bottom we’ve got a bit more of a presence there, despite a lack of tracks in our region.
Also as you pointed out they very much laid it out in such a way as to emphasize certain geographies, despite the high importance of the southern ocean to many whale species. I need to go back and see where the tagging was done, as northern whales seem to be to be over represented in the tracks. It looks like most likely in close proximity to Monterey Bay in California, if I had to guess. Admittedly if the data had come from an Australian institution, it would likely be biased to data collected here.
I’d also be very interested in seeing this same data laid out with a split northern/southern hemisphere map, from the perspective of the poles.
Lol I’m still suffering from karma induced knee-jerk deletions from <that other place>.
Oops, I committed the cardinal sin of commenting before reading the article 😅
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Quick link to the study: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05762-w