ClimateExplorer

ClimateExplorer is a website to help people understand climate change. It's focussed on trying to provide a simple and approachable interface for people to explore the changes to climate in their region.

ClimateExplorer.net has two main sections; 1) local climate change information about a specific location and 2) regional and global charts to show what is happening with greenhouse gases, ice melt, sea-level rise, ocean temperatures, etc.

This github site is the digital repository for everything used to bring the website together.

Architecture and code

• Built in Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition using
  • .NET 9
  • C#
  • Blazor
  • Minimal Web API
• The main projects in the solution are:
  • Web: Blazor server-side website that displays the data to the user. This is a wrapper project, most of the Blazor files are in Web.Client.
  • Web.Client: Blazor Web Assembly version of the website. This will download to the browser and the browser will switch to using this after its downloaded.
  • WebApi: Web API that gets and processes the data that the website uses
  • Core: code shared between Web, WebApi and other projects
  • UnitTests: tests for various sub-systems
• Additional libraries used
  • https://github.com/Megabit/Blazorise
  • https://github.com/DP-projects/DPBlazorMap
  • https://github.com/AeonLucid/GeoCoordinate.NetStandard1
  • https://github.com/HugoVG/CurrentDevice
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/DBSCAN/ (source)
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/Blazored.LocalStorage/ (source)

How to use

• Download the github repo.
• Open in Visual Studio 2022.
• Set your start-up projects to be Web and WebApi and run.
  • Two websites should start-up; the user interface and the web API.