An Investigative Analysis of Climate Change Using Historical and Modern Weather Data
Open accessAbstract
The average air temperature has been increasing in recent years. The purpose of this study was to compare meteorological differences between the 1800s and 2000s using recorded historical and modern weather data from four different time periods, each separated by approximately 60 years. Historical weather data can be used to observe climate change in recent years and in the years dating back to the early 1800s to note if there has been an acceleration of the rate of temperature change over the past two centuries. In this study, air temperatures and various aspects of precipitation were observed and compared among the four time periods. Historical weather data from 1826-1836 were obtained from a journal recorded at Erasmus Hall High School (Brooklyn, NY), digitized, and compared to data recorded during 1894-1898, 1940-1948, and 2003-2012 from various weather stations in proximity to Erasmus Hall High School. Results showed that annual mean temperatures have increased at higher rates in more recent years and that the number of extreme days each year, defined as the days with temperatures ≥ 90ºF (32.2°C) or temperatures ≤ 10ºF (-12.2°C), increased over time. The number of days with precipitation each year has also increased; however, the amount of annual precipitation has remained constant throughout the 35 years used in this study.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Several JEI articles that investigate some aspect of climate change have been successfully used to supplement climate education in the high school classroom.
“For example, there are several JEI articles that investigate some aspect of climate change that have been successfully used to supplement climate education in the high school classroom (2, 4, 7).”
From Incorporating Primary Scientific Literature in Middle and High School Education (2016) · cites this paper as [7]
The title and Introduction identify this as an article investigating climate change, and the title block lists a high school affiliation. Neither those passages nor the Acknowledgements say that the article was successfully used to supplement climate education in a high school classroom. (LLM, conf=0.87)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Cites
Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation
Alexander, L. V., Zhang, X., Peterson, T. C., Caesar, J., Gleason, B., Klein Tank, A. M. G., Haylock, M., Collins, D., Trewin, B., Rahimzadeh, F., et al. (2006) · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · doi:10.1029/2005jd006290 · Cited by 4,492 · see citing works
The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System
Falkowski, P., Scholes, R. J., Boyle, E., Canadell, J., Canfield, D., Elser, J., Gruber, N., Hibbard, K., Högberg, P., Linder, S., et al. (2000) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.290.5490.291 · Cited by 2,177 · see citing works
The toxicology of climate change: Environmental contaminants in a warming world
Noyes, P. D., McElwee, M. K., Miller, H. D., Clark, B. W., Tiem, L. A. V., Walcott, K. C., Erwin, K. N., & Levin, E. D. (2009) · Environment International · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2009.02.006 · Cited by 1,207 · see citing works
Ocean salinities reveal strong global water cycle intensification during 1950 to 2000.
Durack, P. J., Wijffels, S. E., & Matear, R. J. (2012) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1212222 · Cited by 1,070 · see citing works
Reconstructing Past Climate from Noisy Data
von STORCH, H., Zorita, E., Jones, J. M., Dimitriev, Y., González-Rouco, J. F., & Tett, S. F. B. (2004) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1096109 · Cited by 467 · see citing works
Downscaling future climate change: Temperature scenarios for the Mediterranean area
Hertig, E., & Jacobeit, J. (2007) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.09.003 · Cited by 117 · see citing works
Reconstruction of precipitation history in North American corn belt using tree rings
Blasing, T. J., & Duvick, D. N. (1984) · Nature · doi:10.1038/307143a0 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
New Directions: Climate change and air pollution abatement: A bumpy road
Raes, F., & Seinfeld, J. H. (2009) · Atmospheric Environment · doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.06.001 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
Changes in the vertical profiles of mean temperature and humidity in the Hawaiian Islands
Díaz, H. F., Giambelluca, T. W., & Eischeid, J. K. (2011) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.02.007 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Incorporating Primary Scientific Literature in Middle and High School Education
Fankhauser, S. C., & Lijek, R. S. (2016) · Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education · doi:10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.1004 · Cited by 13 · see citing works
“For example, there are several JEI articles that investigate some aspect of climate change that have been successfully used to supplement climate education in the high school classroom (2, 4, 7).”
Background
- Authors
- Han, H., & Kurtz, R.
- Venue
- Journal of Emerging Investigators
- Published
- 2013
- ISSN
- 2638-0870 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4387226856
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 0.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Journal of Emerging Investigators (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- University of South Carolina
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Keywords
- climate change, air temperature trends, historical weather data, precipitation, temperature acceleration, long-term climate records, digitized historical documents
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
