Publications by Kelly
Climate Examples Using RClimate
Andy Long at Northern Kentucky University has created a RClimate web page that provides numerous examples of climate data analysis using RWeb, RClimate scripts and publicly available climate data. Filed under: R Climate Data Analysis Tool, RClimate Script Tagged: R scripts Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow t...
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RClimate
This blog focuses on how to use R to study climate data. I will be using readily available public climate data and R to understand global warming and climate trends. These charts show the types of that I will be making. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: RClimate. R-bloggers.com offe...
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Tracking Precipitation by Day-of-Year
Plotting cumulative day-of-year precipitation can helpful in assessing how the current year’s rainfall compares with long term averages. This plot shows the cumulative rainfall by day-of-year for Philadelphia International Airports rain gauge. The source data was downloaded from the Pa Climatologist website for the period 1949:2016. The period...
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Checking Historical Precipitation Data Quality
Precipitation Data Quality Concerns I am interested in evaluating potential changes in precipitation patterns caused by climate change. I have been working with daily precipitation data for the Philadelphia International Airport, site id KPHL, for the period 1950 to present time using R. I originally used the Pennsylvania State Climatologist web ...
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Access and Analyze 170 Monthly Climate Time Series Using Simple R Scripts
Open Mind, a climate trend data analysis blog, has a great Climate Data Service that provides updated consolidated csv file with 170 monthly climate time series. This is a great resource for those interested in studying climate change. Quick, reliable access to 170 up-to-date climate time series will save interested analysts hundreds – thou...
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El Nino – La Nina & Hurricanes
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RClimate Script to Plot 90+ days in summer
The weatherData package, link , makes it very easy to retrieve detailed weather data from hundreds of stations across the US. I developed this script to retrieve and plot daily maximum and minimum temperatures and highlight days with 90+ max temps and 75+ minimum temps. Here’s the results of my script: The user can specify the desired weather ...
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RClimate Script to Assess Local Hot Day Trends
There is ample evidence of global climate change, these are just a few examples (here, here, here). While global indicators are important to focus attention on the problem and solutions, local data is important to help us understand the situation in our own areas. There are a number of R packages that let users download and analyze weather da...
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Annual Mean Temperature Trends – 12 Airports
This animated gif shows changes in annual mean temperature at 12 East Coast USA airports that had continuous daily data for the 1950 – 2015 period. The data was retrieved from Weather Underground using the R weatherData package . 11 of the 12 airports (all but JAX) show statistically significant increases in annual mean temperatures. Related...
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Analysis of a Flash Flood
Flash floods seem to be increasing in many areas. This post will show how to download local USGS flow and precipitation data and generate a 3-panel chart of flow, gage height and precipitation. There was a tragic flash flood incident in Berks County Pennsylvania on July 11-12, 2019 that caused the death of 3 people, including a pregnant woman and...
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