{"id":122,"date":"2018-05-19T18:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ocheltw\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2018-06-27T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:15:36","slug":"122-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ocheltw\/teaching\/f-rs-310\/310-assignment-descriptions\/122-2\/","title":{"rendered":"310 Assignment #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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F\/RS 310
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Assignment #3
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Climate Diagram
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43 Points Possible
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Objective<\/strong><\/p>\n

The objective of this assignment is to teach students to create their own climate diagrams in order to assess the climate patterns and typical conditions of particular sites.\u00a0 A secondary goal of the assignment is to give students more experience working with spreadsheets (ie. Microsoft Excel) to enhance their quantitative experience.<\/p>\n

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Student Learning Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n

After this assignments you will:<\/p>\n

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  • Improve your ability to work with .csv files.<\/li>\n
  • Expand the formats you can convert in Excel.<\/li>\n
  • Apply the \u2018subtotals\u2019 function to multi-step calculations in Excel.<\/li>\n
  • Use the \u2018sort\u2019 function in Excel.<\/li>\n
  • Create a figure with 2 y-axes.<\/li>\n
  • Modify axis labels on figure with two y-axes<\/li>\n
  • Add additional text to figure to enhance the information communicated with this format<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Description of Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I have provided you a video that describes the process of creating a climate diagram.\u00a0 The video will show you where to get your data and how to process it in Microscoft Excel so that you have the data necessary to create a climate diagram (see example below).\u00a0 I have made video for both Mac and PC users, and both videos can be viewed on our class Canvas page.<\/p>\n

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    Rubric<\/strong><\/p>\n

    To get full credit on this assignment you will need to do the following:<\/p>\n

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    • Download a dataset that is at least 30 years in length (5 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Calculate the monthly averages for air temperature and precipitation<\/li>\n
    • Plot both temperature and precipitation on the same figure\n
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      1. Temperature must be represented by a red line (5 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n
      2. Precipitation must be represented by a blue line (5 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      3. Add a Title to the graph that includes\n
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        1. Location of your site (4 points)<\/strong>\n
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          1. (country, latitude, longitude, and elevation)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
          2. Mean daily maximum value of the warmest month (3 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n
          3. Mean daily minimum value of the coldest month (3 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n
          4. MAP (3 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n
          5. MAT (3 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n
          6. Years in the data set (2 points)<\/strong>\n
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            1. Include both temperature and precipitation in the following format\n
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              1. [Tyy \u2013 Pyy]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                • Two y-axes. Temperature should be plotted as your primary axis (left) and precipitation on your secondary axis (right axis).\u00a0 And make sure to include labels and units<\/u><\/strong> for both left and right axes. (10 points)<\/strong><\/li>\n
                • NOTE: <\/strong>Remember, you DO NOT need to indicate months with freezing temperatures by thickening the x-axis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                  Example of a climate diagram<\/p>\n

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