Mapping The Arctic H2o Ice Cap

MasterMaps has created a actually impressive mapped visualization of the Arctic H2O ice cap. The Arctic Sea Ice map allows you lot to compare the monthly bounding main H2O ice embrace inward the Arctic for whatsoever calendar month since 2006.

If you lot pick out a calendar month from the bottom timeline you lot tin in addition to thus accommodate the twelvemonth on the peak timeline to brand a straight comparing of whatsoever calendar month for each twelvemonth from 2006 to 2015. Every fourth dimension you lot accommodate the timeline the Arctic come across H2O ice coverage is automatically updated on the map.

The map was created amongst D3.js. Creating a map of the Arctic amongst close mapping libraries is rattling hard thus this custom mapping solution from MasterMaps is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive. If you lot don't convey the D3.js chops yourself in addition to thus you lot tin role the Arctic Web Map, an Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server, in addition to a Leaflet-based customer library.