Category Archives: Field Campaigns

Relating Air Temperature to Surface Temperature

As Dr. C wrote during his Surface Temperature Field Campaign, the weather in mid-December was cold in many parts of the United States. At our house here in Boulder, Colorado (Figure 1), this morning’s minimum temperature was -21 degrees Celsius. … Continue reading

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Dr. C.’s GLOBE Surface Temperature blog 12-16-08

By taking your measurements for Dr. C., you are participating in science. Lots of scientists take measurements of different kinds to test new ideas, or to figure out how to measure things in new ways, like, for example, using a … Continue reading

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

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

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 Field Campaign — 4 December 2008

This is the second of a series of blogs for Dr. Kevin Czajkowski’s surface-temperature field campaign. It is exciting to see how many schools are participating! Here in Colorado, we ate our lunches outdoors earlier this week, while the eastern … Continue reading

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