This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 2 - Intermediate GIS Functionality

Exercise 3 - Working with Climate Model Simulations

Technical skills you will learn:

• Work with netCDF multidimensional data in GIS.
• Graph temporal trends.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 2 - Intermediate GIS Functionality

Exercise 2 - Web Mapping with Climate Data

Technical skills you will learn:

• Create a web map with ArcGIS Online.
• Add climate data to the web map.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 2 - Intermediate GIS Functionality

Exercise 1 - Working with Raster Data

Technical skills you will learn:

• Access raw precipitation data from NOAA.
• Interpolate point data into a raster.
• Create a departure from normal grid.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies. 

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 5 - Coordinate Systems and Map Projections

Technical skills you will learn:

• Understand basic coordinate system information.
• Working with Toolbox to manually alter coordinate systems.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert, National Center for Atmospheric Research

J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Patricia Carbajales, Clemson University

This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies. 

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 4 - Cartographic Mapping

Technical skills you will learn:

• Work in the Layout View to design a map.
• Work with different map elements.
• Disseminate and share your map.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert, National Center for Atmospheric Research

J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Patricia Carbajales, Clemson University

This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 3 - Data Symbology and Classification

Technical skills you will learn:

• Symbolize qualitative data.
• Symbolize quantitative data.
• Work with layer packages.
• Render raster datasets.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies. 

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 2 - Exploring Spatial Data

Technical skills you will learn:

• Explore data format types in ArcGIS.
• Work with vector data.
• Add web services to your maps.
• Explore raster datasets.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 1 - Introduction to GIS

Technical skills you will learn:

• Open and explore the software interface.
• Add data to the map.
• Work with attribute data.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research