Connecting The Arctic

The Arctic Sensor Web Platform is an interactive map of real-time sensors across the Arctic. The map allows anyone to access real-time data almost electrical current weather condition conditions throughout the polar region.

The sensor readings tin live on accessed merely past times clicking the markers on the map. Each sensor provides data on the electrical current weather condition conditions, for event the temperature, air current speed, atmospheric precipitation together with visibility. The map carte du jour allows you lot to filter the sensors shown on the map past times country.

The Arctic Sensor Web Platform uses the Arctic Web Map, an Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server, together with a Leaflet-based customer library. The Arctic Web Map uses a Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area persuasion of the North Pole region. This agency that the North Pole on the Arctic Web Map is non every bit distorted every bit it is inward a Mercator projection, every bit used past times Google Maps, OpenStreetMap together with other pop spider web maps.