Climate Wizard

Climate Wizard, a tool meant for scientists and non-scientists alike, is being demonstrated by The Nature Conservancy in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with the climate summit.

The new tool was developed by University of Washington’s Evan Girvetz, who worked with Chris Zganjar of The Nature Conservancy and George Raber of the University of Southern Mississippi.

‘Climate Wizard is meant to make it easier to explore climate data in an interactive way. It makes the data accessible in ways that are more intuitive, even for people who are not climate scientists,’ said Girvetz.

For example, data used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the science organisation evaluating the risks of climate change, is made visual and more readily understandable through Climate Wizard.

Climate Wizard lets users focus on states, countries or regions around the world and apply different scenarios to generate colour-coded maps of changes in temperature and precipitation that can, in turn, be used to consider things such as moisture stress in vegetation and freshwater supplies.