GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 2.3 Working with Climate Model Simulations

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

ArcGIS Desktop Download (259.3 MB)
ArcGIS Pro Download (311.6 MB)

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

Related Topic
Climate Change
NetCDF
GIS Product Type
ArcGIS Desktop
ArcGIS Pro
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GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences

GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 2.2 Web Mapping with Climate Data

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

 

ArcGIS Desktop Download (3.2 MB)
ArcGIS Pro Download (1.39 MB)

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

Related Topic
Climate Change
GIS Product Type
ArcGIS Desktop
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Pro
Workshop Theme
GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences

GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 1.5: Coordinate Systems and Map Projections

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

 

ArcGIS Desktop Download (7.18 MB)
ArcGIS Pro Download (8.77 MB)

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert, National Center for Atmospheric Research

J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Patricia Carbajales, Clemson University

Related Topic
Climate Change
Projections
GIS Product Type
ArcGIS Desktop
ArcGIS Pro
Workshop Theme
GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences
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Section 1.4: Cartographic Mapping

QGIS - Lesson 2: Exploring Data at the Regional Scale

Identifying Demographic and Physical Characteristics of Urban Areas

In this module, you will perform many common GIS analytical functions such as proximity and overlay analysis in order to identify which cities are located at a lower elevation and close to the coast.  You will work with elevation, cities, downscaled climate model output in netCDF format and coastline data.  

Exercise, Maps, and Data (41.87 MB)

NOTE: this exercise was developed using QGIS 2.0.  Some steps may a bit different in later versions of the software.

Related Topic
Climate Change
GIS Product Type
Quantum GIS

QGIS - Lesson 1: Global Analysis – Exploring Global Climate Model Output

This is an introductory module for anyone interested in learning QGIS. 

In this first exercise, we will be working with global climate model output from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) in order to map possible future temperature and precipitation change by the middle of the 21st century.  We will map temperature change thresholds and identify which regions may be affected by these changes.  This first exercise will focus on global change.

Exercise, Maps, and Data (8.32 MB)

NOTE: this exercise was developed using QGIS 2.0.  Some steps may be a bit different in later versions of the software.

Related Topic
Climate Change
GIS Product Type
Quantum GIS
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