Transcript Teaching with Real Data

Teaching with Real Data:
Paleoclimatology Resources
for Teachers (and other NOAA
P. Brown
J. Wellington
resources)
Connie Woodhouse
National Climate Data Center, Boulder CO
L. Thompson
Teaching Climate Change: Lessons from the Past
2006 Workshop
Montana State University, Bozeman Mt
D. Hodell
OVERVIEW
Photo from NASA
• NOAA Education Policy and Resources
• Paleoclimatology Resources from the National
Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimatology Branch
• Other Climate Change Resources from the
National Climatic Data Center
NOAA and
Education
From the NOAA Education Policy
At NOAA, education means a process of engaging external audiences to build
knowledge on topics relevant to the world’s atmosphere, climate, oceans, and
coastal ecosystems in order to achieve greater environmental literacy, personal
safety, and an improved economy.
http://www.education.noaa.gov/
National Climatic
Data Center,
Paleoclimatology
Branch home
page
Our web site includes several
source of education materials
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
EDUCATIONAL
SLIDE SETS
CLIMATE TIME LINE Web site
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/index.html
PALEO PERSPECTIVES EDUCATIONAL WEB PAGES
GLOBAL WARMING
Currently under revision
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE
NORTH AMERICAN
DROUGHT
DATASETS AND TOOLS FOR DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS
The each of the main
paleoclimatic proxy
types have a search
engine and graphical
interface to search for
and download data
CLIMATE
RECONSTRUCTIONS
Global, hemispheric, local
from a variety of proxy data
• air temperature
• precipitation
• drought
• streamflow
• atmospheric circulation
(e.g., ENSO)
• sea surface temperatures
• others
SOME OF THESE HAVE
VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Gridded Network of Summer
Drought Reconstructions
tools for spatial and temporal
display
From Cook et al. 2004
Gridded Network of Summer Temperature Reconstructions for
Western North America: a tool for visualization
From Briffa et al. 1992
Colorado Streamflow Reconstructed from Tree Rings for Water
Resource Managers, soon to be expanded to other areas of the
western US
NCDC CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCES
Includes links to the Climate Monitoring page with State of the Climate Reports,
references on Climate Trends and Extreme Events, Indices of Climatic Change
for the US, Global Warming FAQ, and links to various climate databases.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climateextremes.html
NCDC’s GLOBAL WARMING FAQ
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html