Ember

climrisk.org

This site hosts tools to create or view synthetic illustrations of climate change risks:

Climate Risks Embers Explorer   ▶ Start here

"Burning embers" are an illustration of how climate change risks and impacts on humans and ecosystems increase with global warming. The aim of this app is to present burning ember diagrams from all IPCC reports so far (until AR6 included) in an homogenous and accessible way, with a view to link the diagrams with information describing what they represent. [More...]

EmberFactory   ▶ Start here

The purpose of this application is to (re)produce burning ember diagrams of the style used in IPCC reports. The Ember Factory takes standardised Excel sheets describing color transitions as input. It produces quality figures in PDF format, editable with vector-drawing software if needed. [More...]

Ember Elicitation Desk (beta)   ▶ Start here

The Ember Elicitation Desk is a tool to facilitate structured expert elicitation to illustrate climate change risks through "burning embers" diagrams. This version is still a pre-release (beta), but it reproduces a diagram from a past expert elicitation process and we hope that it is useful in its current form. [More...]

  • The current version is 0.5 (April 2024): climrisk.org/emberelicitation
  • Feedback would be very appreciated and could help guide future development

Maintenance

There is no planned update (last update: 6 April 2025).

EmberMaker library

The "ember drawing" part of the EmberFactory is now available as a separate library/API: EmberMaker, available as python package on PyPI with examples including how it can be used within R provided on FramaGit.

About this website

This website was created in 2020 to host application(s) related to climate change research. For more information, please contact Philippe Marbaix.

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