In previous posts I have shown plots of global temperature anomaly, volcano and Nino34 trends (here , here). In this post , I want to further explore the role of volcanic eruptions and Nino34 phases (El Nino, La Nina) on … Continue reading →
Posts Tagged ‘ R Climate Data Analysis Tool ’
Climate Charts, Data and RClimate Scripts
While there are many online climate data resources, the source data files are in numerous data formats, presenting a challenge to climate citizen scientists who want to retrieve and analyze several climate indicators at the same time. I have been ̷...
LearnR Toolkit To Help Excel Users Move Up To R
As a former Excel chart user, I want to help current Excel users make the transition to more advanced charting R with as little difficulty as possible. This post introduces my LearnR Toolkit to help Excel users move up to … Continue reading ...
Plotting Atmospheric Temperature Structure and Lapse Rate
This post presents an RClimate script to develop a temperature sounding profile and calculate the ambient lapse rate using University of Wyoming atmospheric sounding data. Understanding atmospheric structure and lapse rate is essential to a full unders...
RClimate Tools for Do It Yourself Climate Trend Analysis – Nov, 2010 Update
I have made several updates to RClimate tools for do-it-yourself climate scientists. The downloadable monthly climate trends file (link to csv file) now includes the 5 major global land-ocean temperature anomaly time series (GISS, HAD, NOAA, RS...
September Anomaly Trends Show Global Warming Continues: Update 1
In this post I present a trend chart which shows the September anomaly trends for the 5 major global temperature anomaly series and a table that shows how September 2010 ranks over the entire record for each series. The source … Continue reading ...
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Trends: 1979-2010; Update 1
Now that the 2010 Arctic sea ice melt season is over, we can see how 2010 fits into the long-term trends Arctic Sea Ice Extent. This post shows an R Climate chart that I have made to look at the … Continue reading →
RClimate Tools for Do It Yourself Climate Trend Analysis
In this post I introduce my RClimate functions which allow R users to easily download and plot monthly temperature anomaly data for the 5 major global temperature anomaly data series: GISS, HAD, NOAA, RSS, UAH. Consolidated LOTA Data File In … Co...
Time Series Regression of Temperature Anomaly Data: 1 – Don’t Use OLS
Phil Jones Statement (February , 2010) Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) responded to a series of questions from the BBC in early February, 2010 (link). Question B dealt with global warming trends in the 1995 – 2009 … Continue r...
Tracking Long Term and Recent UAH Channel 5 Anomally Trends
In this post I present combined long term and recent trend charts of UAH Channel 5 temperature anomalies using R’s figure inside figure capability. This approach provides a better picture of global temperature trends than UAH’s day-of-y...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
