Module 1 • Explore: Case Study
Student Page 1-7.3c1-7.3c
NASA Database
Collect station data for Greenland!
1. Go to “NASA Database,” available in
Module 1 of Study Resources in Investigate
of Logistics at PolarHusky.com.
2. Choose Data Set after homogeneity
adjustment, type the station name
Angmagssalik and click Search.
This weather station is located by the community of Angmagssalik in Greenland just south of Thule
Air Base and Qaanaaq. This weather station is chosen because it goes all the way back to 1895 and
up until today in 2009.
3. Click on Angmagssalik.
4. Below the graph that appears, in the lower
left corner select Download monthly data
as text.
5. Data is displayed in columns. These are the
annual average temperatures in Celsius for
the time when recordings are available from
this station.
6. Calculate an average for the first ten years
in the record 1895-2004 and an average
for the most recent ten years in the record
1998–2009.