Module 1 • Arctic Exploration: Case Study
Student Page 1-7.3f
Your Weather Data
Collect Station Data for Your Community
Now it is time for you to share what’s climate change to you?
1. If you are in the United States, instead of using the NASA resource for your climate date, you can
use http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html
2. Click on Cities and select the city closest to your community.
3. In the dialog box select
- Data Type = Mean Temperature
- First Year to Display = This should be the base period year you calculated in your survey (step 3)
- Period = Annual
- Last Year to Display = 2006
- Base Period = Type the same year as in “First Year to Display”
- Location = leave as default (this should be the city you selected)
- Select the radio button Table and sort by Year
Click to submit!