Previous IOPs

Previous IOPs

The Great Global Investigation of Climate (GGIC) Intensive Observing Period (IOP) has run quarterly beginning September 2011.  Each instance of the IOP has encouraged student participation through the collection of data and submitting that data to the GLOBE database.

1 -30 June 2013

See another example of how you can use only one month's worth of data using data from New Zealand in this month's summary.

1 -31 March 2013
Read a summary of this IOP that uses student collected data from different GLOBE regions and compares it to NOAA's March 2013 global temperature map.

1-31 December 2012
Revisit what long-term data collection can provide:  Students from Switzerland have been collecting air temperature data since 1998.  This summary looks at the short-term temperature trend using GLOBE data only.

1-30 September 2012
Is there anything that you can do with one month's worth of data?  Read this IOP's summary which shows you how you can examine whether a month's temperatures were above or below normal, using data from a school in Mali.

1-30 June 2012
El Nino conditions returned to the Pacific Basin, and a school in Mexico validated that during such an event, schools in the region experience above average rainfall.  Read more about the results of this IOP here.

1-31 March 2012
Air temperature and soil temperature are related, although maybe not as you expect. Two schools from the United States, one in Montana and another in Puerto Rico, collect air and soil temperature data frequently enough to compare these two variables. This summary will show you the relationship.

1-31 December 2011
Read a summary about what long term data can provide.  Students from the Czech Republic began collecting air temperature data in 1995, and have over 17 years worth of data to analyze.  See how their average temperature has changed since they began recording and reporting data.

1-30 September 2011
Even across the same Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification you can see large differences. Three schools located at different locations across Saudi Arabia collected daily maximum and minimum temperature throughout the month.  Read more about their observations here.

For more information, such as the number of countries participating or the number of data points entered, on these IOPs, please visit the Student Climate Research Campaign participation page.