Exploring Climate Change Data with R

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2023

Authors

Guimarães, N (Author) Other; Vehkalahti, K (Author) Other; Pedro Campos (Author) FEP; Engel, J (Author) Other

Book

Title: Statistics for Empowerment and Social Engagement: Teaching Civic Statistics to Develop Informed Citizens

Pages: 267-296

ISBN: 978-303120748-8; 978-303120747-1

Electronic ISBN: 9783031207488

Indexing

Scopus - 1 Citation

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Y-5S5

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20748-8_11

Abstract (EN): Climate change is an existential threat facing humanity and the future of our planet. The signs of global warming are everywhere, and they are more complex than just the climbing temperatures. Climate data on a massive scale has been collected by various scientific groups around the globe. Exploring and extracting useful knowledge from large quantities of data requires powerful software. In this chapter we present some possibilities for exploring and visualising climate change data in connection with statistics education using the freely accessible statistical programming language R together with the computing environment RStudio. In addition to the visualisations, we provide annotated references to climate data repositories and extracts of our openly published R scripts for encouraging teachers and students to reproduce and enhance the visualisations. © Springer Nature Switzerl and AG 2022.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 29