Glacial Movement Among the Ages

This week I played around with some of the attributes from them glacier shapefile that I downloaded from the National Snow and ice center and created graduated symbols. I copied the shapefile layer twice into the data frame to create two new layers. One for Elevation and one for area. However, I had to look at the layers separately because things got too crowded on the map. The map with the dark blue graduated symbols represents the area of the glaciers. The map with the lighter blue graduated symbols represent the mean elevation of the glaciers. I will have to spend sometime next week thinking about how the best way to represent all of this on the map at once as to not make it look to crowded and confusing. I am also thinking of a new approach to my project. I will now be analyzing the mean elevation and the areas of the glaciers in correspondence to the average yearly temperatures. I am hoping this approach will be more feasible than my original plan to see the...

This week I downloaded the shape file wgi_shapefile_feb2012.zip from the National Snow and Ice Data Center World Glacier Inventory, Version 1. I added a base map to the data so I would see it mapped out in each continent. And I added the Average yearly temperature layer to my map. The citation for the data is: Countries World - Average Yearly Temperature (June 11th, 2014) [ArcGIS Online]. Esri Data and Maps. ArcGIS Online: [October 11th, 2018]. I then added a layer showing the total CO2 emissions in metric tons. The citation for the data is, World Bank - CO2 Emissions (April 20th, 2018) [ArcGIS Online]. Esri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, United States. ArcGIS Online: [October 11th, 2018]. The world imagery base map that I originally had on, ended up turning off the layer (unchecked it in the table of contents) and am deciding whether or not I want to turn it back on or not for future reference. Next week I will analyze the date that I have laid out on the map and try to...