climate data
Atmospheric measurement history
Climate data refers to measurements and observations about weather patterns, temperatures, precipitation, and atmospheric conditions collected over time.
Scientists use climate data to track long-term trends: The climate data shows average temperatures rising over the past century.
It includes everything from satellite readings to ice core samples to historical weather records.
- satellite imageryEarth views from orbit
- weather stationAtmospheric conditions measurement facility
- humidityMoisture in atmosphere
- empirical evidenceProof from measurable observation
- precipitationAtmospheric water deposit
field study · temperature · rising temperatures · salinity · tidal patterns · global warming · greenhouse gases · radiosonde · reanalysis · calibration · air pressure · heat index · ocean currents · wave height · cloud cover · environmental monitoring · polar ice caps · sea level rise
- desert researchsand dunes, drought, aridity, desertification, erosion
- polar scienceglaciology, Antarctic research, ice shelf, Arctic, ice caps
- ArcticArctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Arctic wildlife, Arctic exploration, Arctic research
- climateweather, global warming, temperature, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas
- meteorologyweather, rain, wind, snow, clouds
- almanac contentsencyclopedia, yearbook, annual, calendar, time zones
climate dataclimate denial
Rejecting scientific consensus on warming
anecdotal evidence · climate projections · climate fiction · climate models · hearsay