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Category Archives: Climate
Without data, there is only religion
Well here it is, finally, after hours of optical character recognition to extract the data from : Null, Jan, “A Climatology of San Francisco rainfall, 1849-1991” (1992). Master’s Theses. Paper 490. http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/490 data that should be readily available through the publicly … Continue reading
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Tagged climate data center, national climate data center, seasonal rainfall
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Data follies continue
During the gold rush in 1849 a couple of doctors and an interesting character, a surveyor/glass blower/instrument maker, began taking rainfall measurements in San Francisco. They sold this data to local newspapers and an almanac. In 1871 the army signal … Continue reading
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Tagged enso index, rainfall data, rainfall measurements, rainfall records
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What is going on here?
I was going to do a little excel graph plotting a nice el nino/viejo index readily available from the Japanese Meterological Association (JMA) from 1864 to present against precipitation for the same period in the San Francisco area. I am … Continue reading
Climate Change
Been getting up to speed on what I feel is the salient geoscientific issue of our time. We really need to get this one right. The stakes are enormous and the emotional pitch of the climate war is increasing. On … Continue reading
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A starting point.
Astronomers tell us we only have a billion years left before a senescent sun burns us out of here. This is a haha at a facebook timescale, but in the big picture it means that life on earth is very … Continue reading
