Iris Folpmers, Fabian C. Moss, Tobias Blanke

In this project we use NASA's recently published data [1] on regional effects of human activity on carbon dioxide emissions. Due to the COVID lockdowns that happend at different moments in different areas, the researchers were able to disentangle human activitiy causes from natural ones.

The corresponding visualizations and sonification to section 3.2 of the thesis. All the sonifications were also used for the evaluation and section 4.1 of the thesis.

This sonification was also used for the first question of the Evaluation in section 4.1.2 of the thesis.

If this sonification is not available, it can also be found on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t6Oo709IFgNUvufWuoMEXoQFuIA7YHF-/view?usp=sharing

This sonification was also used for the third question of the Evaluation in section 4.1.2 of the thesis.

If this sonification is not available, it can also be found on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LtSdiri5piYhK1C8_rzOf5104HZe66dV/view?usp=sharing

This sonification was also used for the second question of the Evaluation in section 4.1.2 of the thesis.

If this sonification is not available, it can also be found on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tx4QmoEpmvs1YeOEO9tY92PUl5XSx7c_/view?usp=sharing

• NASA sonification examples: https://chandra.si.edu/sound
• news report: https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-makes-first-of-its-kind-detection-of-reduced-human-co2-emissions/
• tutorials for NetCDF format:
  • quick tutorial: https://www.earthinversion.com/utilities/reading-NetCDF4-data-in-python/
  • official documentation: https://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/

• Astronify: https://astronify.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• sonification tutorials
  • step-by-step guide: https://jupyter.brynmawr.edu/services/public/dblank/jupyter.cs/Sonification.ipynb
  • (https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/sonification)

1. Weir, B., Crisp, D., O’Dell, C. W., Basu, S., Chatterjee, A., Kolassa, J., Oda, T., Pawson, S., Poulter, B., Zhang, Z., Ciais, P., Davis, S. J., Liu, Z., & Ott, L. E. (n.d.). Regional impacts of COVID-19 on carbon dioxide detected worldwide from space. Science Advances, 7(45), eabf9415. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf9415