This repository contains Jupyter notebooks that create plots seen on the home page of keelingcurve.ucsd.edu and each notebook can be altered to create custom versions of these plots. Each notebook can be opened in Google Colaboratory by clicking on the 'Open in Colab' link at the top of each notebook.
How to run and save the notebooks
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Plot icecore and MLO records back 2000 years from the present
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Plot icecore and MLO records back 10K years from the present
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Plot icecore and MLO records back 800K years from the present
Jupyter notebooks to create animations of select graphics on the front page of keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The plots are created using CO2 concentration data from Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) and a some of the plots also use ice-core CO2 concentration data. The data sources are listed below.
The Mauna Loa Observatory CO2 data is updated when there is a tweet from the Keeling Curve twitter account which occurs nearly daily. The last month of MLO data is preliminary and is subject to corrections due to factors discussed in the Data Sources section.
The ice-core data is from 800K years ago to 1957. See sources below.
Mauna Loa carbon dioxide data from the most recent month is preliminary and subject to subsequent updates to account for retrospective calibration and quality control. See scrippsco2.ucsd.edu for data that has passed these routine quality checks and updates. The datasets are archived once a month on the scrippsco2.ucsd.edu website and the Scripps CO2 Program library archive database at UCSD.
Mauna Loa carbon dioxide data from the most recent month is preliminary and subject to subsequence updates to account for retrospective calibration and quality control. See scrippsco2.ucsd.edu for data that has passed these routine quality checks and updates. The datasets are archived once a month on the scrippsco2.ucsd.edu website and the Scripps CO2 Program library archive at UCSD.
CO2 data from 1958 onward are from the Scripps CO2 program
Site: http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/data/atmospheric_co2/primary_mlo_co2_record
DOI: http://doi.org/10.6075/J08W3BHW
Citation: C. D. Keeling, S. C. Piper, R. B. Bacastow, M. Wahlen, T. P. Whorf, M. Heimann, and H. A. Meijer, Exchanges of atmospheric CO2 and 13CO2 with the terrestrial biosphere and oceans from 1978 to 2000. I. Global aspects, SIO Reference Series, No. 01-06, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, 88 pages, 2001. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/09v319r9
CO2 data before 1958 going back 2000 years
Site: https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:37077v1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25919/5bfe29ff807fb
Citation: Rubino, Mauro; Etheridge, David; Thornton, David; Allison, Colin; Francey, Roger; Langenfelds, Ray; Steele, Paul; Trudinger, Cathy; Spencer, Darren; Curran, Mark; Van Ommen, Tas; Smith, Andrew (2019): Law Dome Ice Core 2000-Year CO2, CH4, N2O and d13C-CO2. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. https://doi.org/10.25919/5bfe29ff807fb
CO2 data before 1958 going back 800,000 years
Site: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/6091
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06949
Dataset: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/epica_domec/edc-co2-2008.txt
Citation: Lüthi, D., M. Le Floch, B. Bereiter, T. Blunier, J.-M. Barnola, U. Siegenthaler, D. Raynaud, J. Jouzel, H. Fischer, K. Kawamura, and T.F. Stocker. 2008. High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000-800,000 years before present. Nature, Vol. 453, pp. 379-382, 15 May 2008.