Archive for the ‘Climate’ Category
Heat Wave
The graphic shows the temperature anomaly in the US for the month of July (actually July 1 – 27).В Parts of Kansas/Oklahoma experienced temperatures a full 4В°C higher than normal over the month, while there was a cool anomaly in the Pacific Northwest. The map uses an equal area projection (Albers) with horizontal [...]
July 29, 2011
Posted in: Climate 
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Large scale weather correlations using R’s raster package
The previous post on this blog used historical wind speed data from ECMWF reanalysis. Reanalysis products are observation-based snapshots of past states of the atmosphere. They provide a physically consistent picture of the past using current models and the historical data. For example, suppose you want to know the relation between spatially averaged Irish and [...]
March 21, 2011
Posted in: Climate, Wind Energy 2 Comments
