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Exploring NCAR Climate Change Data Using GIS

Jennifer Boehnert, Lawrence Buja, Constantin Cranganu, Cathy Reznicek, David Smith, Michele Thornton, Olga Wilhelmi, Earth Exploration Toolbook

This Earth Exploration Toolbook chapter uses ArcGIS and climate data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Climate Change Scenarios GIS Data Portal to help users learn the basics of GIS-based climate modeling. The five-part exercise involves calculating summer average temperatures for the present day and future climate modeled output, visually comparing the temperature differences for the two model runs, and creating a temperature anomaly map to highlight air temperature increases or decreases around the world.

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