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Zoom out and center it around the pacific ocean if you want to actually compare them.
by lasc4r 5y ago
Zoom out and center it around the pacific ocean if you want to actually compare them.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThat doesn't work with the Mercator projection, which Windy uses, as the distortion is specific to the latitude, regardless of where the map is centred. Contrast: Orthographic: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/orthographic=-169.82,55.55,585/loc=130.793,65.398 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/... Equirectangular (closely resembles Mercator): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/equirectangular=-230,0,147/loc=130.793,65.398 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/... Patterson (less distorted than Mercator): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/patterson=185.82,0.08,147/loc=130.793,65.398 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/... Waterman Butterfly (minimal area distortion over land): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/waterman/loc=130.793,65.398 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/... Winkel-Tripel (spherical variant, minimal distortion): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/winkel3=176.41,1.76,179/loc=-130,0 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/... An equirectangular projection distorts the scale considerably at high latitudes, increasing apparent size, as does Patterson But even with non-distorted projections, the Siberian wildfires dwarf North America's.