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Earth Sciences

Document name

Characteristics

Description

CA vs Alaska Weather

Data from Geography with 732 cases, 12 attributes. Useful for Project

Shows daily weather information for Barrows, Alaska and Moraga, California.

GlobalCarbon2000

Data from Environmental Science with 51 cases, 8 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Breakdown of man-made carbon dioxide emissions into components from 1950-2000

Iowa Temps and Precip

Data from Climatology with 1096 cases, 10 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

3 years worth of temperature and precipitation data for one Iowa location.

MaunaLoa2003

Data from Environmental Science with 552 cases, 3 attributes. Useful for Activity

Monthly carbon dioxide measurements from the top of Mauna Loa from 1958 to 2003.

MaunaShort

Data from Environmental Science with 150 cases, 4 attributes. Useful for Activity

Monthly carbon dioxide measurements from the top of Mauna Loa from 1975 to 1990.

ME and CA Tides

Data from Geography, Oceanography with 2698 cases, 7 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Two month's worth of hourly tide information for two locations with radically different properties.

RegionalCarbon2000

Data from Environmental Science with 450 cases, 9 attributes. Useful for Activity

Carbon dioxide emissions by year including total and various types.

RegionalCarbon 1900_1997

Data from Environmental Science with 980 cases, 9 attributes. Useful for Activity

Carbon dioxide emissions by year including total and various types, 1900-1997.

SeismicCanada1920_1959

Data from Geology with 617 cases, 6 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Positions and magnitudes of Canadian earthquakes 1920-1959.

SeismicCanada1960_1989

Data from Geology with 669 cases, 6 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Positions and magnitudes of Canadian earthquakes 1960-1989.

South Pole

Data from Geography with 379 cases, 3 attributes. Useful for Activity

Temperatures at the South Pole by month from 1957 to 1988.

USAvgAnnualMeanTemps

Data from Environmental Science with 30000 cases, 8 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

A century's worth of temperature data for 10 states and a number of weather stations within each state. Global warming is visible.

WeatherMachine

Simulation from Probability with 30 cases, 1 attribute. Useful for Activity

Simulates a sequence of weather by day based on a stochastic model.

WorldEarthquakes

Data from Geology with 17674 cases, 6 attributes. Useful for Project

Date, time, position, depth, and magnitude data for earthquakes around the world during 6 months of 1999


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