Ice core data

I was surprised when I discovered how stable the temperature was for the past 10k years compared to prior years. This repo creates a simple page that charts temperature changes from one publication ice core data.

I'll add more datasets to this repo over time.

This repo:

• downloads the raw data from NOAA
• clean/tidy the data using a shell script
• chart the data using the Dygraphs javascript library

I also containerize the web app via docker and make, making it easy to deploy.

The result is an interactive chart, but here's a screenshot of the result:

The initial dataset charts the temperature derived from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two ("GISP2"). See this description.

Try it out

Pre-requisites

• make
• docker

git clone https://github.com/jschaub30/ice_cores.git
cd ice_cores
make serve

Now open http://localhost:5001 in your browser.

Sources

• Source publication: "The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland
• Description of dataset
• raw data
• tidy data