Vegetation piles on the carbs
Human activty is putting nearly ten billion tons of additional CO2 into the atmosphere each year. These emissions derive from burning of fossil fuels and changes in land use. Only half of this additional CO2 stays in the atmosphere, however. The rest is absorbed by oceans and by land (vegetation + soils). Climate researchers investigate [...]
July 8, 2009
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Climate Variability – Weather Stations
Surface weather stations are an important source of climatic information. They provide standardised daily instrumental time-series with records going back decades or even centuries in some cases. This post shows how to retrieve station data and extract information about climatic variability using the remarkable statistical computing language R.
The U.S. National Climate Data Center (NCDC) maintain [...]
May 4, 2009
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