Google Earth For Monitoring the Climate Change

Ups!

Thats the first word that came up from my lips when I received the newsletter form Google Earth.

You know what?

As we have known, Google Earth not only allows you to view satellite and aerial photography, but also contains 3D terrain of the Earth. If you tilt your view while looking at any part of the Earth with mountains or canyons, you will see the terrain in three dimensions. (Make sure you've turned on the terrain layer, otherwise everything will appear flat.)

You can also use the line and polygon tools to draw on the surface of the Earth. You can also use more advanced KML features such as the ability to show time animations to convey more powerful visualizations.

One Google Earth Community member (a 'Bzoltan' from Hungary) recently posted a Google Earth file showing what might happen if you raised the level of water around the world by up to 100 meters. After you download the file , GE will fly to a view over San Francisco. Hit the "Play" button on the time slider (the triangular right-arrow to the right of the slider) to start the animation. Or, just grab the slider and slide it back and forth to see the effects. The animation shows the water rise from 1 to 100 meters. This is a simple water rising model, which is not a scientific method, but it gives you a rough approximation of the impact.

So, for you who are interested in monitoring the trend of our erath condition will be, you can just play with. Once again, it is not scientific method yet, but at lerast you can see how would your earth be if you raise up the water about 100m above the recent condition.

Here is the different preview in GE before and after fill in up the water:

before

after: