Web links on greenhouse/global warming

The colors of life http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20010327page2.html Univ. of Colorado Solar system collaboratory

http://solarsystem.colorado.edu/

Main window http://solarsystem.colorado.edu/home/lowRes.html Be sure to check out the demo and technical guide.

For our group:
* The Greenhouse Effect: EARTH/VENUS/MARS
A quick tour of the greenhouse effect.

Though physicists may want to check out The scientific method and check out THE DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT
What do Twinkies have in common with electrons?

Christian Science Monitor

http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/19/p12s1.htm including interactive flash chart - interesting!

Global environment information center
http://www.geic.or.jp/index.html

calculate your carbon load
www.geic.or.jp/co2-cal/

Climate, greenhouse, global warming from NCAR
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1.htm (overview page)
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm (greenhouse)

from the EPA
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html

teacher sites

with lesson plans and teacher guides, etc. Some of the exercises have the students look at different internet sites, gather materials, then "discuss," so beware.

Web page with links to a number of educational sites specifically set up for primary/secondary school teachers http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Seasonal/education.html

see esp. the GLOBE project http://archive.globe.gov/tctg/globetg.jsp?rg=n&lang=en

global warming Teacher module for 7 - 10th grades (Kelly B. is interested in this)

http://www.letus.nwu.edu/projects/gw/

EPA educators links http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/VisitorCenterEducators.html

bad science; bad greenhouse (Alistair Fraser) http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadGreenhouse.html Physics appletsUniv. of Oregon

Carbon cycle for intermediate students but does the organic chemistry

Chemical Carousel: A Trip Around the Carbon Cycle
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?tname=11226&url=11226/why.htm

Paleoclimate

NOAA: for educated public:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html

NOAA intro to paleoclimatology http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/primer.html

and links therein to ice cores, pollen etc.

Slide sets: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/slides/slideset/

Historical/Documentary Data Sets: World data center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/historical.html

Ice Core data:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/greenland/summit/index.html

Local and recent climate data

**Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) GCOS Surface Network (GSN) http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/servlets/gsn
421 stations in 22 countries. Choose country and station. can get data or plot on line: annual average temp, and precipitation. Dates; 1948 - 2000

**United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) U.S. HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK (USHCN) - NDP-070 http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/usa.html
scroll down and click on map to obtain data for a certain state. this is where I got the Greenville data

Greenville OH http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/broker?_PROGRAM=prog.climsite.sas&_SERVICE=default&id=333375

**Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) http://www.giss.nasa.gov/

Common Sense Climate Index (CSCI) http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/csci/
Climate Indicators in the Climate Index
The Climate Index is the mean of several climate change indicators. These indicators, such as the frequency of extreme temperatures and heating degree days, are quantities that tend to be noticed by people and have economic significance.
greenville OH; http://www.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/update/csci/show_station.py?id=425724290020&data_set=2

Midwestern Regional Climate Center http://mcc.sws.uiuc.edu/index.html
search for a climate summary http://mrcc.sws.uiuc.edu/html/MWclimate_data_summaries.htm#

Definition of climate normal (1971 - 2000) for greenville water plant http://mcc.sws.uiuc.edu/Temp/OH/333375_tsum.html

andrea.koziol@notes.udayton.edu

Dr. Koziol's homepage

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