Teal Tool: Explore climate data easily    

WHAT IS TEAL TOOL?

Teal is a free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables from 1950 to near real time, and carbon emissions from 1960. It also allows to explore projections of climate variables from 2015 to 2100 for three different GHG emission scenarios (‘low’, ‘medium’ and ‘high’ emissions).

A global map shows climate data by country and sub-country. These show as temporal resolutions.

Teal is not an acronym, rather the name comes from the colour of its background! Try Teal today!

WHY CHOOSE TEAL TOOL?

Teal provides free access to easy-to-use climate data. You don’t need technical expertise in complex datasets to use Teal. The hard work has already been done for you by WEMC climate data specialists. In a few clicks you can visualise and download the data, as well as graphs, that can be used to inform  your decisions.

For more information and opportunities surrounding Teal, please contact us here.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING TEAL TOOL?

Teal offers a free and unique opportunity for students, educators, climate activists and the environmentally-conscious public to explore how the climate has changed. It is ideal for enhancing global dialogue, participation and sharing ideas in climate change education and awareness.  

Teal can also assist businesses within industries including energy, water, agriculture and insurance to make informed management and development decisions based on robust historical, projection, observation climate data. Teal helps businesses to drive action as it removes the need to spend time collecting and visualising climate data manually. 

WHERE DOES THE TEAL DATA COME FROM?

TEAL was built on previous C3S demo tools: the European Climatic Energy Mixes (ECEM, 2015-2018) demo and the C3S Climate & Energy Educational Demo (2019-2020).

The historical climate data comes from the ECMWF ERA5 datasets that provide hourly estimates of a large number of atmospheric, land and oceanic climate variables. Additional information on ERA5 including resolution and accuracy can be found here.

The carbon emission data comes from the Global Carbon Project (GCP). The best and only reference to the data can be found here, which is updated every year.

The projection data comes from ten of the CMIP6 (the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6) models, more details on CMIP6 data for users is found here. The ten models were chosen with the constraint that they had available, at the time the data was downloaded, all four variables for all three scenarios that Teal uses.

Note that both ERA5 and CMIP6 data derive from global models of the Earth-atmosphere-ocean system with computational constraints on spatial resolution, so some small scale meteorological features may not be well represented.

The historical temperature observations come from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) dataset.