Teaching Climate Change: Lessons from the Past 2006 Workshop Montana State University, Bozeman Mt Teaching with Real Data: Paleoclimatology Resources for Teachers (and other NOAA resources) Connie Woodhouse National Climate Data Center, Boulder CO J. Wellington L. Thompson D. Hodell P. Brown
OVERVIEW NOAA Education Policy and Resources Paleoclimatology Resources from the National Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimatology Branch Other Climate Change Resources from the National Climatic Data Center Photo from NASA
From the NOAA Education Policy At NOAA, education means a process of engaging external audiences to build knowledge on topics relevant to the world’s atmosphere, climate, oceans, and coastal ecosystems in order to achieve greater environmental literacy, personal safety, and an improved economy. NOAA and Education
National Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimatology Branch home page Our web site includes several source of education materials
EDUCATIONAL SLIDE SETS
CLIMATE TIME LINE Web site
PALEO PERSPECTIVES EDUCATIONAL WEB PAGES
Currently under revision GLOBAL WARMING
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE
NORTH AMERICAN DROUGHT
DATASETS AND TOOLS FOR DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS
The each of the main paleoclimatic proxy types have a search engine and graphical interface to search for and download data
CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS Global, hemispheric, local from a variety of proxy data air temperature precipitation drought streamflow atmospheric circulation (e.g., ENSO) sea surface temperatures others SOME OF THESE HAVE VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Gridded Network of Summer Drought Reconstructions tools for spatial and temporal display From Cook et al. 2004
Gridded Network of Summer Temperature Reconstructions for Western North America: a tool for visualization From Briffa et al. 1992
Colorado Streamflow Reconstructed from Tree Rings for Water Resource Managers, soon to be expanded to other areas of the western US
NCDC CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCES Includes links to the Climate Monitoring page with State of the Climate Reports, references on Climate Trends and Extreme Events, Indices of Climatic Change for the US, Global Warming FAQ, and links to various climate databases.
NCDC’s GLOBAL WARMING FAQ