GCC’s Changing Climate

AEON Collective compiled detailed data on the changing climate of the GCC, and shared this data in elaborate visualisations to help propel climate action both in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in neighbouring regions and globally. These datasets and visualisations were shared publicly to encourage further discussions and investigations.

AEON Collective had compiled several datasets, namely temperature, hot days, heat index, and precipitation for each city. Within each of these were further variables covering mean, max, and min across both summer and winter periods. These datasets had to be visualised all together in a sophisticated, elegant, and meaningful way that invites engagement and discussion.

Beyond just visualising all these variables at once, AEON Collective also wanted to give users of this data tool the option of filtering, and selecting different variables to compare across the region, and understand how climate affects each city differently. It also needed small multiples that could show, at a glance, what the extent of climate change looks like.

We created a multi-page data tool that allows users to play around, filtering and selecting multiple variables at once to compare across any number of GCC cities. We solved AEON Collective’s challenges by visualising the multiple variables in a series of sleek, minimalistic concentric circles, with each layer representing something different. This allowed us to include the entire 40-year span in a responsive graphic, where overtime trends will be easily identified and understood.