3D scenes, description

In each scene, top left there is text with links to the web site home page, the section for Earth, the index with 3D scenes, and to change language between English and Swedish. Top right there is a toolbox with a checkbox to show or hide the sea surface and a numeric field to scroll ( -135 - +65 meters) on enter (any value) the sea level offset, a menu to set the height scale, a menu to set the population for the cities displayed, a menu to pick navigation mode, with a link displaying a short manual for the navigation when the mouse pointer is over it, a button that moves the camera out so the whole scene becomes visible, a button to reset to the original view, a checkbox to show rendering statistics and a checkbox to show a log. Bottom center is a navigation palette for button navigation in some navigation modes. Bottom right there is a button to hide and show the user interface.

The topography is shown in 3D with color-coded altitude, green - yellow: 0 - 2,560 meters above present sea level, yellow - brown: 2,560 - 8,848 (Mount Everest in the Himalayas) meters above present sea, light blue-green - deep blue: 0 - 2,560 meters below present sea level, deep blue - black: 2,560 - 10,916 (Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench) meters below present sea level. Cities are shown as semi-transparent red cylinders with their height above land proportional to the population.

In the recommended TurnTable navigation, the camera is rotated around the scene by left-dragging with the mouse, panned by center-dragging (or Ctrl-left-dragging), reducing or increasing distance by right-dragging (or Alt-left-dragging), and focused on a new point in the scene by double-clicking it. When the mouse pointer is moved over the topography, the population density (n≈?/km2), area name, position and altitude (h≈? m) are shown, and when it is moved over the red cylinders marking cities, the city name, population (n=?), country name, position and altitude (h≈? m) are shown.

Overview scene, description

3D scene of Earth with markers which show and link to interactive 3D scenes of coastal areas (1186 x 667 km = 11 x 6°) with variable terrain attenuation, sea level and cities.

Top left there is text with links to the web site home page, the section for Earth, the index with 3D scenes, and to change language between English and Swedish. Top right there is a toolbox with a checkbox to show or hide the scene markers, a menu to select maps of topography or population density between 0 and 65 m sea level rise with flooded areas marked red or topography between 0 and 135 m sea level lowering with drained areas marked green, with time intervals for when sea level rise is expected to be reached (e.g. SLR+10m ∼2139-5115CE = SeaLevelRise 10 m reached between the year 2139 Current Era according to cubic extrapolation of data from NASA Sea Level Change with 99.9% confidence interval and the year 5115 Current Era according to linear extrapolation of data from NASA Sea Level Change with 99.9% confidence interval) or time when the sea level lowering was reached after the last ice age (e.g. SLR-045m ~8300BCE = Sea Level Lowering 45 m was reached approximately the year 8300 Before Current Era according to Lambeck 2014), a menu to pick navigation mode, with a link displaying a short manual for the navigation when the mouse pointer is over it, a button that moves the camera out so the whole scene becomes visible, a button to reset to the original view, a checkbox to show rendering statistics and a checkbox to show a log. Bottom center is a navigation palette for button navigation in some navigation modes. Bottom right there is a button to hide and show the user interface.

The topography is shown color-coded altitude, green - yellow: 0 - 2,560 meters above sea level, yellow - brown: 2,560 - 8,848 (Mount Everest in the Himalayas) meters above sea, light blue-green - deep blue: 0 - 2,560 meters below sea level, deep blue - black: 2,560 - 10,916 (Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench) meters below sea level. The population density is shown color coded in logarithmic scale with white and light gray, respectively, for uninhabited and increasing green and red, respectively, for increasing population density above and below sea level, respectively. Navigation in the scene works as above.

Select overview

Scene markers: Hide Show
Altitude (km): (1000 - 12000)
Latitude (°): (-90 - 90)
Longitude (°): (-180 - 180)
Place:
Map type: (when selecting sea level or time)
Select map
Map:
Select sea level rise
Sea level rise (m): (-135 - 65)
Select time
Time (CE/Years A.D.): (-25000 - 25000)
Future estimate:

3D Coasts

Coastal areas, ordered by continent, counter-clockwise. Headings link to partial indices with previews.

Northern, Western Europe

Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean

Western, Southern Africa

Eastern Africa

Southern Asia

Eastern Asia

Japan, Philippines

Northern Russia

Melanesia, New Zealand

Australia

Greenland

Canada

Western USA

Western Latin America

Eastern Latin America

Caribbean, Eastern USA

Pacific

Antarctic Islands

Antarctica