CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT
IMPORTANT: check out the
Instructions on how to use Excel to do your report
Climatology Report
Here you will find the daily climatology of precipitation, maximum temperature and minimum
temperature for each station. Instead of having two columns on each file (one for
the date and the next one for the data) it seems the plotting gets easier if
there is only one column per file. So one file
contains the
dates
and the rest of the files the corresponding data:
SEATTLE
Precipitation (inches) and Standard Deviation (inches)
Maximum Temperature (F) and Standard Deviation (F)
Minimum Temperature (F) and Standard Deviation (F)
HONOLULU
Precipitation (inches) and Standard Deviation (inches)
Maximum Temperature (F) and Standard Deviation (F)
Minimum Temperature (F) and Standard Deviation (F)
FAIRBANKS
Precipitation (inches) and Standard Deviation (inches)
Maximum Temperature (F) and Standard Deviation (F)
Minimum Temperature (F) and Standard Deviation (F)
MADRID
Precipitation (mm) and Standard Deviation (mm)
Maximum Temperature (C) and Standard Deviation (C)
Minimum Temperature (C) and Standard Deviation (C)
SYDNEY
Precipitation (mm) and Standard Deviation (mm)
Maximum Temperature (C) and Standard Deviation (C)
Minimum Temperature (C) and Standard Deviation (C)
If you are doing the term project on the climatology data, you could
compare the results that you find (your plots) with
what was expected for the first season of this year, back in December
of last year.
This kind of "forecast" (they are actually a probability distribution)
is called a "seasonal climate outlook"
and is issued (for some countries) every month or every 3 months.
The text might give you an idea of what to talk about and pay close
atention to the figures that show the expected "anomalies":
Seasonal (January to March 2000) Climate Outlook for Australia
Sesonal (Winter 1999-2000) Outlook for the United States
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