My entry to the ESA Little Picture competition
The idea of my little picture is to represent negative precipitation anomalies as precipitation that do not reach the ground. My little picture is designed to look like rainfall falling from the sky, and to give the sensation of deficit, of lack, when rainfall does not reach the "ground" (that is the zero line, the reference precipitation amount). For this, I used the contrast between white spaces and raindrops. I chose to draw the raindrops in blue because it can be instantly associated with rainfall, but also because it can be associated with the mediterranean region (contrary to gray). I specifically chose a hue of greek blue for that purpose.
The white space below raindrops is used to show the evolution of negative precipitation anomalies over the mediterranean basin land, relative to 1891-1920 (3-year running mean and one raindrop drawn every other year). The y-axis is decreasing upwards, going from 0% anomaly (bottom) to -100% anomaly (top).
Data source: Copernicus Climate Change Service, Climate Data Store, (2021): Temperature and precipitation gridded data for global and regional domains derived from in-situ and satellite observations. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). DOI: 10.24381/cds.11dedf0c (Accessed on 27-09-2023)
Data source: Copernicus Climate Change Service, Climate Data Store, (2021): Temperature and precipitation gridded data for global and regional domains derived from in-situ and satellite observations. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). DOI: 10.24381/cds.11dedf0c (Accessed on 27-09-2023)
