Teaching with Real Data Paleoclimatology Resources for Teachers

Teaching with Real Data: Paleoclimatology Resources for Teachers (and other NOAA P. Brown J. Wellington resources) Connie Woodhouse National Climate Data Center, Boulder CO L. Thompson Teaching Climate Change: Lessons from the Past 2006 Workshop Montana State University, Bozeman Mt D. Hodell

OVERVIEW Photo from NASA • 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

NOAA and Education 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.

http: //www. education. noaa. gov/

National Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimatology Branch home page Our web site includes several source of education materials http: //www. ncdc. noaa. gov/paleo. html

EDUCATIONAL SLIDE SETS

CLIMATE TIME LINE Web site http: //www. ngdc. noaa. gov/paleo/ctl/index. html

PALEO PERSPECTIVES EDUCATIONAL WEB PAGES

GLOBAL WARMING Currently under revision

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. http: //www. ncdc. noaa. gov/oa/climateextremes. html

NCDC’s GLOBAL WARMING FAQ http: //www. ncdc. noaa. gov/oa/climate/globalwarming. html