Demonstrating climate change using the ggplot2 R package to create a tornado plot (CC224)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2022-06-23

Pat creates a 'tornado plot' depicting climate change using the ggplot2 R package by plotting the temperature anomaly for April and October by year. The data depicted are monthly temperature anomalies by month using NASA's GISS data using tools from the ggplot2 R package. This figure shows the deviation in annual global mean temperatures from the normalized temperatures of 1951 to 1980 as a series of line segments created using ggplot2's geom_segment function. The lines are colored according to the size of the temperature anomaly. All of this is done in R with the help of RStudio.

You can find my blog post for this episode at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2022-06-23-climate-tornado.

#ggplot2 #geom_segment #Rstudio #climatechange #R #Rstats

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0:00 Introduction
1:33 Creating initial version of tornado plot
5:40 Creating color gradient
6:53 Creating vertical gridlines
7:48 Modify appearance of figure
11:14 Stylize line segments
12:46 Creating labels for gridlines
15:56 Adding year labels