Repository contains data and scripts for my portion of our May 2018 MAPS group (Team 2) presentation on correlation, causality, and cherry picking data. My section discusses (mis)interpreting statistics of the recent "global warming hiatus."

MAPS is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program in Machine Learning and Physical Sciences at the University of California, Irvine from 2016-2021 (NSF NRT-1633631).

Zachary Labe - Research Website - @ZLabe

• Data/: Additional data files not provided by Python URL functions
• Figures/: Arbitrary figures as examples from listed scripts
• Scripts/: Main Python scripts/functions used in data analysis and plotting
• requirements.txt: List of environments and modules associated with the most recent version of this project. A Python Anaconda3 Distribution was used for the analysis. ImageMagick is used for most of the animations (GIF). All code has been tested with Python 3.6.

• Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project (BEST) : [DATA]
  • Rohde, R., et al. "A new estimate of the average Earth surface land temperature spanning 1753 to 2011. Geoinfor Geostat Overview 1: 1." of 7 (2013): 2. [Publication]
• Cowtan and Way surface temperature record (C&W) : [DATA]
  • Cowtan, Kevin, and Robert G. Way. "Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 140.683 (2014): 1935-1944. [Publication]
• Hadley Centre/CRU gridded surface temperature data set version 4 (HadCRUT4) : [DATA]
  • Morice, Colin P., et al. "Quantifying uncertainties in global and regional temperature change using an ensemble of observational estimates: The HadCRUT4 data set." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 117.D8 (2012). [Publication]
• NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) : [DATA]
  • Hansen, James, et al. "Global surface temperature change." Reviews of Geophysics 48.4 (2010). [Publication]
• NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature (NOAAGlobalTemp) : [DATA]
  • Vose, Russell S., et al. "NOAA's merged land–ocean surface temperature analysis." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 93.11 (2012): 1677-1685. [Publication]