Posts Tagged ‘ Time Series Charts ’

Global Mean Sea Level Trends

September 6, 2009
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Global Mean Sea Level Trends

In this post, I show an R script that downloads the University  of Colorado, Boulder’s 1993-2009 global mean sea level (msl) change (link) data, converts the ASCII file into a usable R data frame, calculates moving average and msl change  trend rate and develops a trend  chart that shows msl change  and trend rates

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Global Sea Surface Temperature Trends (1850-2009)

September 4, 2009
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Global Sea Surface Temperature Trends (1850-2009)

In this post, I show an R script that downloads the Hadley Centre’s 1850-2009 monthly sea surface temperature (HadSST2) anomaly data, converts the ASCII file into 2 usable R data frames, calculates overall and post 1980 SST anomaly trend rates and develops a 2 panel chart that shows SST anomalies and trend rates and the

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CO2 and Temperature Trends

August 31, 2009
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CO2 and Temperature Trends

In a previous post I discussed problems with an Excel based CO2 and temperature trend chart that used 2 Y axes. Double axis charts can be misleading because they may distort the Y axis for one of the series. In this post I show another example of am ineffective double Y axis CO2 and temperature

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