Remote Sensing Activities Help Current Search Limits Refine the Results Results 1 - 10 of 14 matches Climate History from Deep Sea Sediments DATA: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Core Data. Cool Cores Capture Climate Change DATA: ANDRILL Sediment Core Data. Detecting El Niño in Sea Surface Temperature Data DATA: Sea Surface Temperature (SST). Envisioning Climate Change Using a Global Climate Model DATA: NASA/GISS Model II Global Climate Model. Exploring NCAR Climate Change Data Using GIS DATA: NCAR Climate Change Scenarios. Global Change in Local Places DATA: SHALDRIL Core Data; NOAA Pollen data TOOL: GeoMapApp SUMMARY: Import Antarctic sediment core data files into GeoMapApp to create maps and graphs. How Permanent is Permafrost? Investigating Climate Change Using Observed Temperature Data DATA: Historic temperature data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Is Greenland Melting? Access retired EET Chapters
Quicksilver Project Quicksilver is an experimental new data product that attempts to create the world's highest resolution real-time map of global (near-surface) air temperature. It is generated using the same source data models that power Forecast, combined with a sophisticated microclimate model that adjusts the temperatures based on the effects of elevation, terrain, proximity to water, foliage cover, and other factors. Read more about how we create these images on our blog: [COMING SOON]. Stats How to Download The GeoTIFF images can be downloaded like so: For example, the image for August 28, 2013 at 3PM UTC is: Known Issues Because this project is still experimental, there are a number of as-yet unresolved issues: Due to the nature of our ground-station and satellite-based adjustments, temperature data over oceans has a lower effective resolution and accuracy.
Global Warming Effects Map - Effects of Global Warming A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth - Emily Badger A new interactive project from Google, NASA and the US Geological Survey. Since the 1970s, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have been amassing satellite images of every inch of our planet as part of the Landsat program. Over time, the images reveal a record of change: of cities expanding, lakes and forests disappearing, new islands emerging from the sea off the coast of rising Middle East metropolises like Dubai. If you could thumb through these historic pictures as if in a flip book, they would show stunning change across the earth's surface, in both our natural environments and our man-made ones. Landsat images taken between 1984 and 2012 have been converted into a seamless, navigable animation built from millions of satellite photos. Below are a few of the GIFs Google has created showing some of the most startling pockets of change: The above image shows Dubai in 2011.
Welcome to Recycle City | Recycle City | U.S. EPA You are Dumptown's new City Manager! When you begin, you'll see Dumptown at its worst — it's littered, polluted, and nothing is being recycled or reused. There's more to Recycle City than just sightseeing! Try some of these activities. ELI: Climate Change: Instructional Resources Google Earth KML Files | Videos Supplemental Homework Readings | Instructional Handouts | Power Point Files Google Earth KMZ Files Weather and Climate.kmz Investigating Weather.kmz Climate Hotspots.kmz Future World Part1.kmz Future World Part2.kmz Videos How do we know the earth is warming? Supplemental Homework Readings What is the Relationship between Climate Change and Weather? Instructional Handouts Power Point Files Weather and Climate.pptClimate Proxy PowerPoint Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Lake Varves PowerPoint slideshow (PPT file)
2014: An Epic Year for Climate Change and Other Weather-Related Disasters Stick your hand over a lit stove and you can get a feel for 2014's overall climatic situation: scorching heat. For months, experts have been predicting this will be the hottest year in recorded history, and while in the end it might not quite achieve that ignoble record, it will be way up there (perhaps at No. 3). The thermostat could've seemed low in your neck of the woods—meaning America's East Coast and Midwest and the Falkland Islands—but temperatures were sweltering in the rest of the planet. Take a look at these abnormally high and record-hot readings, which represent a 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit deviation above the historical average. Not surprisingly, there were plenty of eye-popping weather and climate events this year, beginning with... Alaska's Big Melt A major heat wave bedeviled the nation's topmost state for the beginning of the year, leading to wet, crushing avalanches like the one above on Richardson Highway. Hallucinatory Heat in Australia The Vortex That Shall Not Be Named
Climate Change and Game-Based Learning Teaching about complex interconnected systems like global climate change can be difficult. There are many unseen pieces affecting the greater whole that young people (and many adults) might not understand. One approach to lifting this conceptual curtain for students is assigning the BrainPOP video on the topic prior to class, flipping the instruction. Try BrainPOP's Make-a-Map tool, which is an open-ended concept map, a playful assessment, to have students demonstrate interconnections. Making Climate Change Games At a recent conference, I learned about EcoChains: Arctic Crisis. When students make their own climate-themed games, they will gain a deeper understanding of the topic. This spring I took part in Climate Game Jam: Water, organized by NOAA. Changing precipitation patterns Freshwater supply and sources Ocean acidification Polar issues Human use of water Marine/freshwater ecosystems There were also different game categories: Game Jamming to Learn About Complex Systems
Global Warming Natural Cycle — OSS Foundation Is global warming a natural cycle? Or is global warming affected by human influence? What does the science say? Both are true. In the natural cycle, the world can warm, and cool, without any human interference. For the past million years this has occurred over and over again at approximately 100,000 year intervals. The difference is that in the natural cycle CO2 lags behind the warming because it is mainly due to the Milankovitch cycles. Where are we currently in the natural cycle (Milankovitch cycle)? The natural cycle is understood by examining the paleo records. Natural Cycles The National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate Present 'Climate Change: Lines of Evidence - Natural Cycles' The Natural Cycle - Climate Minute Rapid Climate Change In The Natural Cycle 9,000 Years 12,000 Years The Holocene temperatures peaked around 8,000 years ago. Source: Links
3B: CO2 - My Life's Story Part B: CO2—My Life's Story Atmospheric CO2 and temperature data taken from Vostok Ice Cores. Image source: Bowman Global Change and The Birch Aquarium, Scripps Institute of Oceangography, UCSD The carbon cycle has changed over Earth's history Imagine if fossils didn't exist. Take several minutes to examine the graph pictured above and then answer the Checking In questions below. Discuss The ice core CO2 and temperature data you just explored raises some interesting, more complex questions. To help you answer these important questions, focus on the following topics as you watch the video: Ice cores come from every place in the world where ice accumulates over time. Stop and Think 1: Describe the relationship between carbon dioxide, temperature and ice ages. A slow acting geologic carbon cycle is key to reducing the concentration of atm CO2 over very long time scales (hundred thousands of years to millions of years). The Long Term Geological Carbon Cycle Provenance: Dr. Checking In
How Much Does Human Activity Affect Climate Change? The Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. Scientists trying to find out what’s causing climate change work like detectives, gathering evidence to rule out some suspects and to ascertain just who is responsible. It’s clear, based on over a century of scientific investigation, that humans are responsible for most of the climate change we’ve seen over the last 150 years. Humans are not the only suspects. The climate has changed throughout the Earth’s history, well before humans evolved. Carbon dioxide is rising because of human actions: Scientists can measure the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 150 years. The potential for human beings to alter climate was first proposed over a century ago, building on research in the 1850s by John Tyndall. For over 100 years, scientists have regarded humans as the prime suspect in current climate changes. In the 1950s, scientists began methodically measuring global increases in carbon dioxide. Further reading