Visualizing the climate change in Saxony (Germany)

Goal

Prepare an annual temperature variation as shown in

• spiral code
• blobs The author of all of this appears to be Antti Lipponen

Ultimately, I'd love to create a hexmap of Saxony like so and then I'd love to fill the hexagons with temperature deviations from the 1961-1990 median max/min/median temperature and gganimate that.

Data aggregation

• data obtained from DWD CDC server

  • contains 2 folders historical (01.01.1781 - 31.12.2018) or recent

• R package rdwd

  • it's hard to find stations inside a state, used DWD's KL_Monatswerte_Beschreibung_Stationen.txt directly for that and greped for Sachsen

How to use?

I have a decent list of dependencies and the code was only used on Fedora 30 (Linux) so far. I use R for vizualisation. Install the dependencies like so:

install.packages(c("dplyr","gganimate","ggmap","ggplot2","lubridate","rdwd","readr","sf"))

To create the animated gif, do:

$ make prepare #downloads the list of weather stations
$ make animate #performs the 

Want to help?

Please, open an issue or send a PR.