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Brian Magi
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Geography and Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte
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Tag Archives: north carolina
Forecasting the USA temperature and precipitation tendency for 2014
Where we are this calendar yearCurrently, the USA as a whole and the Southeastern USA are both cooler than normal this year and precipitation is slightly below average for the Eastern USA, above average for Colorado-Wyoming-Idaho, and well below average … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, CPC, data visualization, NOAA, North, north carolina, USA
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Climate in the Southeast in January 2014
Scientists studying the Earth’s climate system are supported by an immense and rich array of data. Sometimes it seems like you only have to be comfortable working with all this information. Programming languages help (matlab, R, python, NCL, for example). … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, data visualization, NCDC, NOAA, north carolina, USA
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Charlotte Citizens Hearing on EPA Proposal to Regulate Carbon Emissions
Real conversations about how we can act on climate change (#ActOnClimate) seem to be happening right now. Environment North Carolina published their tabulated emissions from state power plants, and even highlighted North Carolina’s role in this.To offer public support for … Continue reading
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Tracking and targetting emissions from power plants
As my students probably know by now, I think an important point when discussing or even thinking about how to deal with the combination of our hunger for energy and global warming is to remember the scales of the problem. … Continue reading
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Ramping up for teaching with NOAA NCDC
Summer is a time of dedicated research for me. Finished one project, waiting for peer reviews on that manuscript, tinkering with twitter, planning out research conference travel in the next school year, and working on a grant proposal to NSF. … Continue reading
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May 2013 climate in North Carolina and the world
With global warming and all of the impacts, it’s very important to constantly consider the question of time and space scales. May 2013 is a good example for those of us living in the Southeastern USA or North Carolina. Namely, … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, data analysis, data visualization, global environmental change, global warming, NCDC, NOAA, north carolina, USA
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North Carolina climate compared to the USA and globe
The first months of 2013 here in Charlotte have seemed unusually cool, but rather than relying on our gut feeling, let’s look at the numbers. Start by going to the NCDC website and mine out the data to find that … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, data analysis, global warming, NCDC, north carolina, statistics, USA
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2012 Temperatures in North Carolina and USA
The big news, if you’re paying attention the inexorable increase in temperatures, is that the biggest contributor to fossil fuel carbon (the USA) is experiencing the hottest year in 118 years. We have one month remaining this year, but the … Continue reading
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Cool in North Carolina, but not the USA
Between all the various climate excitement in the news – like record-low Arctic sea ice – temperature measurements continue to be collected. A really great webpage to actually examine the temperature data is at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center. … Continue reading
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