Teacher Researcher Climate Change

article to replace the Western Hemlock FS-240 publication. This one is better because it details distribution based on elevation and location. It has graphs with growth factors.

Great upper end for differentiation. Nails growth factors, sensitive zone. Check out #24 literature citation!

CTE curriculum looks like it maps to OR CTE sections

on a rabbit trail, found this, thought of you...

"The slowdown in rising temperatures over the past 15 years goes from being unexplained to overexplained"

rabbit trail ocean acidification data set (NSTA conference hot topic) that could be used with KMNI

This interactive visualization provides a clear, well-documented snapshot of current and projected values of several climate variables for local areas in California. The climate variables include observed and projected temperatures, projected snowpack, areas vulnerable to flooding due to sea level rise, and projected increase in wildfires. The projected values come from expert sources and well-established climate models.

Looks like .gov has launched a revised website dealing with climage issues. Links to sections entitled: News and Features; Maps and Data; Supporting Decisions AND Teaching Climate. They advertise this last section as containing "Reviewed resources for teaching about climate and energy "

"Worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record according to the 2012 State of the Climate report released online today by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The peer-reviewed report, with scientists from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC serving as lead editors, was compiled by 384 scientists from 52 countries (highlights, full report). It provides a detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments on land, sea, ice, and sky. "

"here are a few connections between the two, but they are largely separate issues."

"Over the past half-century, the ozone hole has caused a poleward shift of the extratropical westerly jet in the Southern Hemisphere. Here, we argue that these extratropical circulation changes, resulting from ozone depletion, have substantially contributed to subtropical precipitation changes. Specifically, we show that precipitation in the southern subtropics in austral summer increases significantly when climate models are integrated with reduced polar ozone concentrations. Furthermore, the observed patterns of subtropical precipitation change, from 1979 to 2000, are very similar to those in our model integrations, where ozone depletion alone is prescribed. In both climate models and observations, the subtropical moistening is linked to a poleward shift of the extratropical westerly jet. Our results highlight the importance of polar regions for the subtropical hydrological cycle. "

NCAR site (one of the datasets Bryan had us use) has some background on the different datasets; easier to understand than information link from Climate Explorer

secondary links from Kari's hole in the ozone page; come back here and review this information on data and climate change

Berkley professor explaining the hidden decline in tree ring data that was part of climategate

website built by another (one of 71 like RTP) NASA projects; focus on Climate Change and Health; still under construction, has links to a background material

photo and video about removing otoliths

interactive showing an otolith "growing"