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Exploring Regional Differences in Climate Change
Category: For Educators, Strategies for Outreach, Education, and Communication, Lesson Plans, Media, and Collaborative Research, Ocean and Climate Literacy, For Graduate Students, Climate Change
Resource Type: Web-Based
Date Posted: 11/13/2007
 
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Most people understand that significant climate changes are predicted in the next century, but they may not be aware that these changes will likely vary regionally. Using climatological data from the University of New Hampshire's EOS-Webster, students will obtain annual predictions for minimum temperature, maximum temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation for Minnesota and California to explore this regional variability. They will learn how to access climate model predictions from EOS-Webster, a digital library of free Earth science data. They will then be walked through the process step-by-step of producing graphs of the data in a spreadsheet application to compare climate predictions among U.S. states through the year 2100. Students are asked to analyze the graphs to interpret regional trends in climate change. Data used: Climate Model Predictions. Tools used: EOS-Webster, and access to the a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel. [Source: Earth Exploration Toolkit (D. Blaha, R. Freuder; http://serc.carleton.edu/eet)] Grade level: 9-College.

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