DATA to Insight                 SEVEN WORLD SERIES

The Great Acceleration: Earth since 1901
All organisms sense changes in their environment, and many humans acknowledge accelerated changes in key ecological indicators. This project explores 7 global time series since the beginning of the 20th Century. Use it to understand global change and for an introduction to temporal analysis, models, trends, and forecasting.

NAME UNITSSERIES MEASUREMENT SOURCE
1 SOLAR wpm2 solar irradiance watts per square meter U. Colo. Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
2 POP billion population billion humans UN Population Division
3 EMISSIONS GtCO2py CO2 emissions gigatons CO2 per year Global Carbon Budget
4 CO2 ppm atmospheric CO2 parts per million NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
5 TEMP celsius surface temperature anomaly degrees Celsius UK Met Office Hadley Centre
6 PRECIP mmpy precipitation rate (land) millimeters per year US Environmental Protection Agency
7 SEA mm mean sea level anomaly millimeters NOAA climate.gov

The data: ldecola.net/projects/global/global.csv

2023 'The Great Acceleration' course at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, George Mason University (29 minutes)

PowerPoint presentation

2022 Excel Workshop video (14 minutes)

Excel workshop handout

2020 DC satRdays demo (19 minutes)

R script to visualize the data: ldecola.net/projects/global/series.R (subject to change!)