{"id":1860,"date":"2016-10-07T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:13:16","slug":"interactive-global-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2016\/10\/07\/interactive-global-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Global Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earth.nullschool.net\">https:\/\/earth.nullschool.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This website is a great way to visualize many of the things we&#8217;ve been learning about in class. Through its huge number of parameters and extensive customization options you can see many global systems. A sampling of options are ocean currents, wind patterns, and particulate pollution flow.<\/p>\n<p>Within each of these categories, you can specify additional controls, such as altitude and type of pollution. Overlays and animations can be modified to show different comparisons of data. You can even change the projection and date (including forecasting the future).<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage you to take some time and poke around (click on the &#8220;Earth&#8221; button to expand the options menu). It is a great visual way to make connections between different parts of the course and our world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/earth.nullschool.net This website is a great way to visualize many of the things we&#8217;ve been learning about in class. Through its huge number of parameters and extensive customization options you can see many global systems. A sampling of options are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2016\/10\/07\/interactive-global-map\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043,44423,1044,1342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atmosphere","category-fall-2016","category-hydrosphere","category-tools-of-the-geographer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}