Tamefuture

Taipei | How Does Climate Change Affect You?

Tamefuture

High-Level Project Summary

Located in the most active area for the formation of typhoons, Taiwan has the world's highest frequency of them. So, the average annual precipitation here is about 3 times greater than the global average, and where typhoons contribute significantly (50%) to the water supply of Taiwan. How much global warming impacts typhoons and the rainfall becomes vital issues. We used the global temperature from NASA and the data of typhoons from CWB of Taiwan to find the trend of global warming, showing that the climate change trend coincides with a great reduction in typhoons and precipitation. As the typhoons’ rainfall keep declining, the worst drought in 2021 led to a need for better water supply.

Link to Final Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DGuQqzjLzE

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/NpDcD_YQd9Y

Detailed Project Description

Located within the world's most active site for the formation of tropical cyclones from 10°N to 27°N (Sampe and Xie, 2007), Taiwan has been experiencing the world's highest frequency of typhoons.  As a result, the average annual precipitation (2515 mm) in Taiwan is about 3 times greater than the global average. The precipitation that is mainly from typhoons (50%) contributes significantly to the water supply of Taiwan. How much global warming impacts the formation of typhoons and the nature of rainfall is an important issue to be awarded and resolved. 

Here we used the global temperature from NASA to feature the trend of global  warming, while the number of typhoons and the annual rainfall is from Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan. We show that the climate change trend in Taiwan coincides with a significant reduction in the amount of typhoons and annual precipitation. As the typhoon induced rainfall continues to decline, the worst drought hit Taiwan in 2021, leading to an urgent need for better designed water policies and alternative water supply. 


The followings are the storyboard and the links of our 30-second demonstration video and 3-minute video:

  • 30-second demostration: https://youtu.be/NpDcD_YQd9Y
  • 3-minute video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DGuQqzjLzE


Space Agency Data

The followings is our table for Space Agency Data.

Hackathon Journey

  • Last year, water rationing for months alarm every Taiwanese; this year, the only land warning broke the latest record. These phenomenons made us curious about what is going on to our annual visitors, and give rise to the attemption in this challenge.
  • While developing this challenge, we encountered many problems and setbacks in relevant resources, video presentation, and so on. For them, we rewrite our context of climate change four times, all of which make us realize that a big issue requires both big view and close watch.
  • Hope our video can arouse people’s attention to climate change!  

References

  • 吳宇恆,廖學志,葉容君.(2018)新北市目前人行道鋪面之節能減碳策略及其施工案例與成效
  • Maue, R. N. (2011). "Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity." Geophysical Research Letters 38(14).
  •  Sampe, T., and S.-P. Xie (2007), Mapping high sea winds from space, BAMS, 1965– 1978.
  • Typhoon Database,Central Weather Bureau, MOTC(https://rdc28.cwb.gov.tw/)
  • The display of Taiwan position on the earth(https://earth.google.com/web/)
  • The display of rising of global temperature (https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/)
  • the construction photo of Shihmen Reservoir Amouping Sediment-Sluice Tunnel 

(https://amp.wranb.gov.tw/%E6%96%BD%E5%B7%A5%E5%BD%B1%E5%83%8F/%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%86%E5%9D%AA%E9%98%B2%E6%B7%A4%E9%9A%A7%E9%81%93%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B/%E6%96%BD%E5%B7%A5%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87/%E5%85%A5%E5%8F%A3%E6%AE%B5/)

  • The aerial photograph of New Taipei Industrial Park’s wastewater treatment plant

(https://www.moeaidb.gov.tw/iphw/wuku/index.do?id=06)

  • The progress of upgrading pipe system and the leaking rate of the pipes

(https://www.water.gov.tw/ch/Subject/Detail/1134?nodeId=1346)

  • The report about the rate of the main reservoir, Water Resources Agency, MOEA.

(台灣地區主要水庫蓄水量報告表)

(https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/videos/index.html)

  • Hurricane Florence

(https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/images/index.html)

How Does Climate Change Affect You?

Climate change is a universal topic that may affect people all over our planet in different ways. Your challenge is to create a short video that provides factual and educational information about climate change based on where you might be located or experiences you may have encountered.