Sonification

Workshop

Workshop Activities

Environmental Data Sonification Tour

  1. Earthquake sonification Bloch, et al. -- Pakistan -- 2015–2017
    (scroll down to Video 1.)
  2. Simulated Clouds and Precipitable Water, 3 months of 2006 Putnam, et al. 2014
    (what would it sound like?)
  3. Live CO2 level sonification Chafe -- 60+ years, Mauna Loa Observatory NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory Earth System Research Laboratories
  4. Ensemble Means Chafe -- Earplay Ensemble, world thermometers (1961-2022), quintet score (2022)
  5. Snow Depth KQED News -- Donner Pass, CA -- Decembers, 1970-2021
  6. The Metered Tide Chafe & Niemeyer -- San Francisco Bay -- monthly 1900-2016 (more...)
  7. Ice Core Walk CCRMA, EOAS UBC, Earth Sci. Stanford, UCB Art -- Dome Concordia, Antarctica -- annual 800 kyr (more...)
  8. Earth's Climate Chafe, UCB ERG, KQED -- N. hemisphere -- annual 400 yr (details... more...)
  9. Dallas heat days (150 years, 40 model runs) audience participation version ... ensemble version ... paper Clara Deser, et al. Nature Climate Change, 2020
  10. Earth Symphony (mockup for CBC) Tortell, Chafe, Girard, UBC students -- data overlays, 1970-2020

Hands-on coding project

Go here.
(updated for 2024 using the latest webchuck IDE '2')

Tour of webchuck

using webchuck without webchuck IDE

1 hour video and the code examples that go with it.

2022 hands-on coding project