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March 24, 2008
Global Temperature Trends for Google Earth
A couple of programmers from Columbia University developed a Google Earth visualization of a large database of global temperature data. They took data from NASA and other sources and mapped placemarks for cities all over the world. Download their global data file here 
(it may take a few seconds to load the thousands of datapoints). The placemarks have colors which shows the warming trend between the baseline years and recent years. White represents pins without sufficient data in the baseline or recent years. The amount of cooling is shown in shades of blue and amount of warming in reds. But, the real interesting data is inside the placemark descriptions where graphs are shown indicating the temperature trends for each location over the past century or more.
The collection was put together by Ken Mankoff and Mark Chandler of Columbia University. There are more intricacies to the display of the data which are explained on their web page here. This project is a part of a bigger project they have been working on called Educational Global Climate Modeling. This site has a lot of interesting information about our global climate.
Posted by FrankTaylor at March 24, 2008 08:52 AM
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Posted by: carlo at March 24, 2008 02:33 PM
Keep in mind though that Hansen's choice of data and the manipulation thereof has been discredited by other researchers and statisticians. See www.climateaudit.org
Posted by: Ross Nixon at March 24, 2008 03:03 PM
ok,
i'm not a great scientist. but the data modeling has been discredited not the relevation of data and their analysis.
i found the climateprediction modeling quiet interesting. do you know about?
thank's for the link
Posted by: carlo at March 25, 2008 08:20 PM
Lets just be clear that criticisms by individuals at climateaudit.com is simply NOT tantamount to "discrediting" Dr. Jim Hansen's work. Dr. Hansen is a world renowned climate scientist with hundreds of peer reviewed studies to back up his data "manipulation" (I prefer "analysis") techniques.
Posted by: Jim Brad at April 4, 2008 09:54 AM
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hi,
i've got the domain googletemperature.com
i registered it just some weeks ago! i would be interested in providing that domain for promoting this project.
please consider the translation in the language of the different users and the fact that covering the great ammount of meterological data (the temperature is just a simpliy relevable one) would bring google in the core development of climate modeling!
one very imortant data is the particulate matter (pm10; pm2,5).
contact me via email!