Posts Tagged ‘ R Example and Scripts ’

Do It Yourself Climate Trend Analysis

August 19, 2010
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Do It Yourself Climate Trend Analysis

This post describes my consolidated global temperature anomaly CSV file that users can easily download to Excel or R to do their own trend analysis. Do It Yourself Global Temperature Anomaly  Trend Analysis As I wrote in my July 10, … Continue r...

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Tracking Long Term and Recent UAH Channel 5 Anomally Trends

May 9, 2010
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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...

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RClimate Script: Global Mean Sea Level Trend by Month

March 23, 2010
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RClimate Script: Global Mean Sea Level Trend by Month

This RClimate Script lets users read a NetCDF file and plot the latest satellite altimetry based global mean sea level data  from 1993 to the latest completed month. The trend chart shows NOAA’s Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry altimeter global mean sea level with the seasonal signal removed and inverted barometer. I will add this...

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RClimate Script: Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Trends

February 1, 2010
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RClimate Script: Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Trends

This RClimate Script lets users retrieve and plot the National Climatic Data Center’s monthly Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly dat series .  Links to the NCDC data file and my RClimate script are included. Users can run my script with a simple R source() statement. NCDC  SST Anomaly I’ve discussed the Hadley SST anomaly...

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RClimate Script: NINO 3.4 SST Anomaly Trends

January 28, 2010
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RClimate Script: NINO 3.4 SST Anomaly Trends

This RClimate Script lets users retrieve and plot the weekly NOAA NINO 3.4 SST  anomaly data for 1990 to the most recent value.  Links to the NOAA data file and my RClimate script are included. Users can run my script with a simple R source() statement. NINO 3.4 SST Anomaly I’ve discussed ENSO and...

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RClimate Script: CO2 Trends

January 20, 2010
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RClimate Script: CO2 Trends

This RClimate Script lets users retrieve the latest data file on monthly Mauna Loa  CO2 levels and generate a trend chart with the latest reading highlighted. CO2 Trends – Keeling Curve Here’s the Mauna Loa Observatory CO2 trend from 1958 to Dec., 2009. Here are the data and RClimate Script links: Data Link RClimate Script link Posted...

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RClimate Script Introduction

January 10, 2010
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RClimate Script Introduction

Would you like to be able to generate a GISS temperature anomaly trend chart on your PC with just 1 line of R script? What about downloading the R script to your PC so that you can edit the script to fit your needs? In this post I present my first RClimate Script so that...

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent Trends With R

January 1, 2010
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Arctic Sea Ice Extent Trends With R

This post shows how to retrieve on-line Arctic Sea Ice Extent data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), consolidate the data files, generate a csv file, summarize and plot the data and post it as a Google Docs so that interested readers can download and analyze this data series themselves. Links...

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Understanding the Science of CO2’s Role in Climate Change: 3 – How Green House Gases Trap Heat

December 7, 2009
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Understanding the Science of CO2’s Role in Climate Change: 3 – How Green House Gases Trap Heat

This post, the 3rd (1st here, 2nd  here) in the series on Understanding the Science of CO2’s Role in Climate Change, discusses how water vapor, CO2, CH4, O3 and N2O  absorb and emit the Earth’s longwave radiation, changing the Earth’s energy balance. I’ve made a 5 panel chart that shows spectra data for 5 ...

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Solar Trends: Sunspot Numbers Since 1749

September 17, 2009
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Solar Trends: Sunspot Numbers Since 1749

This is the 1st in a series of  posts I will be doing on solar trends. In this post, I show how to retrieve online monthly sunspot data back to 1749, calculate average annual sunspot numbers (SSN),  plot the monthly and annual average SSN as well as a lowess smooth, add the...

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