Resources

Background on Climate Change

• United in Science 2022:
  A report by the World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations Agency that compiles high-level key information about global climate change.
  • Link to Website
  • Link to PDF
• 5th National Climate Assessment:
  A report released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a congress-mandated effort, to compile information about climate change and particularly its impacts in the U.S.
  The full report is quite long, but there is a short version
  • Link to NCA5 Short Version PDF
• Climate change visualizations:
  • Warming Stripes
  • Climate Spirals
• NASA Earth Observatory: World of Change: Global Temperatures
  Summary of Global Temperature Change compiled by NASA
  • Link to Website
• NASA Climate Change:
  A collection of resources on Climate Change compiled by NASA with information about evidence, causes, and effects
  • Link to Website

Information about Dale Enterprise

• Station Information and Site to Download the Data. Data can be downloaded through a web interface from NOAA.
  • Link to Website
• Documentation provided by NOAA for daily summary data
  • Link to PDF
• Description of NOAA’s Global Historic Climatology Network
  • Link to Website

Hobo MX2201 Temperature Logger

• HOBO Quickstart Guide
• HOBOconnect App
• HOBO Pendant MX Temp (MX2201) Logger Manual and Data Sheet

Data

Warning

These datasets are due to be updated with new information as we go closer to the semester end.

• Google Sheet with your Temperature Measurements (see link on Canvas to prevent public access)
• Time series of TMIN and TMAX between 1893 and 2022: DaleEnterprise_TMINTMAXTOBS_20250409.csv
• Data split into years as columns and 1 day per row for easier analysis:
  • TMIN: DaleEnterprise_TMIN_20250409_ByDay.csv
  • TMAX: DaleEnterprise_TMAX_20250409_ByDay.css

Data Analysis:

• Jupyter Notebook with paired T-Test example
  
• How to do a t-test in Excel by Microsoft

Style and Formatting

• How to write a lab report with general information about what sections of a lab report should contain.
• You must provide in-text citations and a reference list:
  Here is how to format citations using the IEEE Citation Style.
• How to reference Figures and Tables in text
  • All figures and tables need captions
  • All figures and tables also need to be referenced in the text. A good way of doing this is to describe them within your results section.
    Here is a guide from PennState