# ☀️ EarthSense: My PhD, now Interactive!

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**Created:** [October 22, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://discourse.bokeh.org/t/earthsense-my-phd-now-interactive/12627 "2025-10-22T00:18:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![mixstam1453](https://discourse.bokeh.org/user_avatar/discourse.bokeh.org/mixstam1453/32/7102_2.png) [@mixstam1453](https://discourse.bokeh.org/u/mixstam1453)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://discourse.bokeh.org/t/earthsense-my-phd-now-interactive/12627/1 "2025-10-22T00:18:39Z")

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After years of coding, debugging, and data crunching for my PhD, I finally turned my research into something you can explore, not just read.

☀ EarthSense — my PhD, now interactive!

During my research on surface solar radiation (SSR) fluctuations, I wanted to make the results truly explorable.

So I built EarthSense, a free, open-source web app that lets anyone visualize and interact with the same climate data and radiative transfer model outputs used in my PhD.

Thanks to **Bokeh** , I was able to transform complex climate datasets and radiative transfer model outputs into a fast, interactive, and visually engaging web app. Bokeh’s powerful combination of **Python integration, server-side interactivity, and rich visual capabilities** made it possible to bring scientific research to life, bridging the gap between raw data and exploration.

You can:  
☀ Explore global surface solar radiation (SSR) maps and monthly animations.  
 ![ES2-ezgif.com-optimize (1)](https://discourse-uploads.bokeh.org/original/2X/0/04bed95ed26741779aa85f429304c6b41d4f8f53.gif)

📈 Compare modelled SSR with ground measurements from the GEBA network.  
 ![ES3-ezgif.com-optimize](https://discourse-uploads.bokeh.org/original/2X/5/5253bb054e0c4bb71abb99c8b73490d7cbf0c1b4.gif)

🌡 Investigate how atmospheric variables influence/link to SSR changes over time.  
 ![ES4 (1)](https://discourse-uploads.bokeh.org/original/2X/7/71e14ad984882d912e04a0c96a0c9ceb979cc7b3.gif)

🔗 GitHub: [GitHub - mixstam1821/EarthSense: My PhD was made interactive through this web app! Thesis: Detailed assessment of the global dimming and brightening of the Earth under all-sky and clear sky conditions using modern tools and long-term climate data: https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/59941](https://github.com/mixstam1821/EarthSense)

🌍 Live demo: [EarthSense Home](https://mixstam1453-earthsense.hf.space/landing)

⚙ Please note: loading the three apps may take some time due to the large datasets being read online, thus prefer to install it locally.