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Throughout the semester we will be conducting several exercises using observed data from climate stations. The purpose of these exercises is two-fold: (i) couple empirical and theoretical explanation of climate, and (ii) gain experience with statistical methods and data analysis. To make the assignments more interesting I advocate selecting a station from a location of interest to you personally. There are numerous weather and climate-monitoring networks. For our purposes, we will use observations from the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) that include about 8,000 stations in the United States. You will need to select one station from around 1200 active “long-term” climate stations located in the United States from the US Historical Climate Network (USHCN) using: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/wwdt/time/ Choose: Retrieval Method of “United States Historical Climatology Network Stations”
These observations are used for weather summaries as well as long-term climate monitoring. I highly recommend that you create a folder where you save all files and data associated with this assignment throughout the semester as you will be building upon your analyses.
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Portfolio Assignment (50% of assignment grade)
Throughout the semester we will be conducting several exercises using observed data from climate stations. The purpose of these exercises is two-fold: (i) couple empirical and theoretical explanation of climate, and (ii) gain experience with statistical methods and data analysis. To make the assignments more interesting I advocate selecting a station from a location of interest to you personally. There are numerous weather and climate-monitoring networks. For our purposes, we will use observations from the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) that include about 8,000 stations in the United States. You will need to select one station from around 1200 active “long-term” climate stations located in the United States from the US Historical Climate Network (USHCN) using: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/wwdt/time/ Choose: Retrieval Method of “United States Historical Climatology Network Stations”
These observations are used for weather summaries as well as long-term climate monitoring. I highly recommend that you create a folder where you save all files and data associated with this assignment throughout the semester as you will be building upon your analyses.
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