Blender terrain workflow notes
Here are some personal notes for how to make elevation models using Blender. install the BlenderGIS plugin. (optional) import geotiff with import using geotiff “DEM as a displacement …
Feb 1, 2024Posts
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FEniCS on windows
FEniCS is a really nice tool for finite element modelling in python. It is difficult to install FEniCS on windows. The official instructions use a docker image. which I think is a bit heavy handed. I …
Mar 25, 2022 -
Daily Glacier
dailyglacier is a twitter-bot that tweets images of a random glacier every day. This page is used to display additional metadata and maps from the bot. Metadata: Metadata refers to the glacier at the …
Sep 25, 2017 -
A workflow for video presentations
Video presentations are a powerful way of getting your science across to a wider audience. I recently published a scientific study on some very large Jökulhlaup in East Greenland. I wanted to have a …
Sep 6, 2017 -
Migrating to Hugo
This site is now created using a static site generator called hugo. I host it on netlify, and the source files are hosted on github. This is a nice setup for academics. So thumbs up from me.
Sep 6, 2017 -
EastGRIP 16, the song
This summer I’ve been doing fieldwork at Eastgrip, doing a GPS survey of a stake strain network, and mapping the surroundings with a fixed wing drone. But I also found some time to compose a …
Aug 11, 2016 -
Working offline and caching in matlab
I am working with satellite imagery in Matlab. This is way too much data for me to keep on my laptop, and so I keep it on a server somewhere. But this has the major drawback that I cannot as easily …
May 29, 2016 -
Picking a password manager
It is difficult to pick a password manager. After many considerations I eventually decided on a keepass2 database. It is a difficult decision because you have to place quite a lot of trust in the …
Apr 7, 2016 -
Migrating from Google Sites to WordPress
I recently migrated from google sites to wordpress. There is lots to like about google sites (high uptime, zero maintenance), and I have been quite happy there.
Mar 16, 2016 -
An existential threat to coastal nations
We may be committing ourselves to an eventual complete deglaciation of Earth in a business-as-usual scenario (ECP8.5). The sea level rise from a complete deglaciation would wipe my own country, …
Mar 15, 2016 -
Plausible upper limit of WAIS ice loss
Ritz et al. (2015) have a recent model study of potential sea level rise from Antarctic marine ice sheet instability.
Dec 15, 2015 -
Optimistic and over-confident ice sheet projections in AR5
Take away message: The graph on the right shows that AR5 process based ice sheet projections are optimistic and over confident when compared to views of ice sheet experts. To be fair they do mention a …
Oct 8, 2015