Shanghai Mood

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上海气候多变，像人们的情绪一般，所以我们的主题是“Shanghai's Mood”。通过调研上海近年的气象数据，我们希望帮助游客们更好地了解上海气候的变化特点，同时我们根据不同季节的气候特点，给出相应的建议，以帮助人们更好地适应上海的天气。另外，我们关注重要节假日期间的上海天气特点，从而更好地帮助游客规划在上海的旅行。 The climate of Shanghai is changeable, just like people's emotions, so our topic is "Shanghai's Mood”. We collected and analyzed Shanghai's climatic data of the past years in order to help people understand Shanghai's weather. Also, we gave the corresponding recommendations to help people adapt to the climate according to the characteristics of different seasons in Shanghai. In addition, we also focused on the climate in special holidays, which aimed to help tourists organize a trip to visit Shanghai better.

Introduction

The first topic the group chose was about the growth of Shanghai in three years, considering both the Chinese and International population, both the expansion of the city . After some discussion we decided to focus our attention on Shanghai’s atmosphere factors and how the main factors can influence people’s daily life. We defined which data could have been interested and useful for our project and we started to search open datas on the Chinese website www.tianqi.com (figure 1). The data we started to analyze were about rain, minimum and maximum temperature, uv index, allergies index and air quality during the last year in Shanghai. After a first selection and translation from chinese to english, we added the datas on excel trying to understand how to divide them. The decision was to analyze all the information we got based on the by lunar calender and the four seasons (figure 2). The choice to use the lunar calendar is because the chinese culture follows it and calculates all the holidays according to that.

Discovering More

Shanghai is a renowned international metropolis drawing more and more attention from all over the world. Situated on the estuary of Yangtze River, it become not only the most influential economic and financial center in East China but an important center of cultural exchanges which gives a suggestive and uncommon international atmosphere to the city. Furthermore, thanks to the location by the sea , the clouds are often bushed away letting people breath better and enjoy the beautiful and carateristic area around the bund. . Nowadays the city is populated by over 24 million inhabitants, Chinese and non, long-term residents and immigrants who share cultures, sceneries and routine in this multifaceted city. The modern and the traditions, the western and the oriental create, new skyscapers and old buildings collaborate perfectly together drawing the skyline of the city. Western customs and Chinese traditions intertwined and formed the city’s culture, making a visitor’s stay memorable.
Shanghai offers visitors a chance to experience the past, present, and future all at once and received 4,091,196 visitors in the first half of 2016, concetrated more during holidays day. Shanghai as other cities throughout the country, celebrates all Chinese public holidays like Spring Festival, QingMing Festival, International Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid Autumn Festival, National Day and some western festivities such as New Year Day, Easter, Thanks Giving and Christmas. This are the dates in which the population of the city changes and tourist conceders it as the favorites destination for the holidays.

Methods

According to this we have decided to collect and compose our data to help tourist getting along with the Shanghai’s mood considering rain, temperatures, pollution, allergenic factors, etc; which are some of the main issues people concerns about when coming to visit the metropolis. To carry out the project we decided to take into consideration variables of the four different seasons (figure 3) and highlight the main factors tourist should be aware of when coming to Shanghai. We had taken as a spotlight public holidays considering them as the most likely occasions tourist could organize a trip to visit the city.
We created the first graphics with 2 and 3 variables in order to find a tendency and validate the assumptions and information founded on the net. Temperatures are very variable and in some seasons weather can get inestable to the point of having 3 seasons in a day. The location makes the city so wet that it rains for about one third of the year and for this reason the best time recommended to visit the city is the springtime.
After the temperature, we wanted to investigate more about the other factors and see if there is a relationship between them: how change the air quality? How Serious is Air Pollution in China? It is debatable how serious the health effects of air pollution are, in some cases in fact, the consequences are the same as cigarettes. The composition of Shanghai Air Pollution according to a report from July 2014 Shanghai air pollution is composed of: vehicle and factory emissions, dust from construction sites, power stations, straw burning, the remainder of other provinces, industrial plants, ships and planes accounted dust, cooking and the agricultural sector.

Conclusions

The division by seasons gave us some interesting information that could be helpful for tourists: during springtime the allergy index is higher and is possible to perceive the tendency of bad quality air while the weather is un-stable; in summer there is a strong presence of rain during the hole season, high temperatures and UV index elevated; fall is determined mostly by a strong allergy index, high temperatures and UV radiation start to decrease; in winter instead low temperatures with sporadic rains and a very strong presence of air pollution. After this we focused more the attention on the holidays and we calculated an average considering the past five years in Shanghai (figure 6).
According to what we discovered we tried to understand how to react in the right way to each factors: • High UV index - use sunglasses, suncream +30, hat, sun protecting clothing, humbrella and avoid bright surfaces • Pollution - wear masks, provide plants that helps to purify the air at home • Allergy index - change clothing frequently, use air purification system, wear mask, use special detergents • Rain - remember umbrella, rain coat and water-proof shoewear • High Temperatures - stay hydrated, take transportation instead of walking Our project wants to help tourist on choosing the right moment to visit Shanghai and provide them an instrument that shows which are the useful elements they should have in their luggages. The idea is to create a flier to be distributed in travel agencies, info points or a link in booking websites.

Please check below our final visualizations in poster format

Project by Oriana Serra | Marta Lamanna | Zhao Lili | Weng Zhenhuan | Huang Mengying