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. There used to be a good website for this report, but it was taken down in 2025. However, the report is still available as a PDF and contains a lot of information about climate change in the U.S. The full report is quite long, but there is a short version
  • Link to NCA5 Short Version PDF
  • Archived PDF of short report: [NCA5 Short Version PDF](./assets/NCA5_Report-In-Brief.pdf
  • Archived PDF of Chapter 1: Overview: Chapter 1 PDF
  • Archived PDF of Chapter 2: Climate Trends: [Chapter 2 PDF](./assets/NCA5_Ch2_Climate-Trends.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
  • Documentation: PDF

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 get closer to the end of the semester.

• 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