Category Archives: Atmosphere

Czajkowski’s GLOBE Surface Temperature blog 12-15-08

Posted on 12/15/2008 by peggy

This is the start of the last week of the surface temperature field campaign. Wow, the weather around the Northern Hemisphere sure has been active. It looks like in the United States we are going to have a good old-fashioned … Continue reading →

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Czajkowski’s Field Campaign — 9 Dec 2008

Posted on 12/09/2008 by peggy

This is the third installment from Dr. Czajkowski Last night, we had snow here in Colorado. In my front yard in Boulder, we had about 23 centimeters of snow. Three kilometers to the east, at Foothills Lab (close to the … Continue reading →

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Czajkowski’s 2008 Field Campaign – Introduction

Posted on 12/02/2008 by peggy

This is the first blog about Dr. Kevin Czakjowski’s 2008 Surface Temperature Field Campaign. They will be interleaved with the Chief Scientist blogs, of which the current one is on watching birds. Hi All, I am very excited to be … Continue reading →

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Measuring Rain

Posted on 11/04/2008 by peggy

For years, I have been measuring the rain in our back yard using a standard rain gauge similar to the ones used by the U.S. National Weather Service (Figure 1). Like the gauge used by GLOBE students, rain goes through … Continue reading →

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Comparing Fahrenheit and Celsius Temperatures

Posted on 10/22/2008 by peggy

I try to write this blog to inform, rather than to express opinion, but I have to admit that I love the metric system. Perhaps it’s because I still remember how hard it was to learn how to convert things … Continue reading →

Posted in Air Temperature, Atmosphere, General Science | 2 Comments