I started this site to explain basic science related to understanding Global Warming. I have made it a separate site because there should be little or no controversy with this data, it is just well known data presented in a slightly different manner. Basically, some types of data are better explained using a multimedia presentation than with simple printed text.

Lapse Rate	Typically, the temperature of the atmosphere changes with altitude. The amount of change is known as the Thermal Lapse Rate, or simply, the Lapse Rate when the context is understood. Overview An explanation of the Lapse Rate and an introduction to the charts Standard Atmosphere A discussion of the 1964 and 1976 Standard Atmospheres In addition, the are several charts Seasons This compares the seasons - winter, spring, summer - and has notes explaining DALR, SALR, ELR Winter 2 days in February Summer 4 days in August I have written a Windows program (described at Lapse Rate Animations) that allows you to look at a full year one day at a time.
Temperature Conversions	Automatically convert temperature from °C to °F to °K and solve Stefan's equation for finding blackbody temperature at equilibrium.
Temperature Standards	The way we measure temperature changes from time to time. Two recent standards are IPTS-68 and ITS-90.
Frequency Conversion	This is a javascript application to convert frequency to wavelength to wavenumber to energy.
Blackbody Equations	Some basic information on the Blackbody equations and how to convert between them. Blackbody chart - A javascript application that plots blackbody curves
Water Vapor	These programs implement 30 different saturation water vapor algorithms (models) to help understand the relationships between Relative Humidity, Dew Point, Temperature, Pressure, and the Water Vapor Mixing Ratio.
IceCores	Various comments, in development Overview.html Some basic information on using my program that plots Vostok ice core data
HITRAN Spectra	A discussion of the HITRAN Spectra database, an MS Windows Application (HITRAN_Data_Plot.zip) to display it, and a userguide
DataPlot	A javascript application that plots generic data in various formats Notes on using graphs - Some basic information on how to use the graph objects - scroll, zoom, hide a series, change a series color Chart Properties This popup window provides the ability to edit the various labels, set axes limits, and other stuff
Graph Notes	Notes on using graphs in my Delphi programs - Some basic information on how to use the graph objects - scroll, zoom, hide a series, change a series color Chart Properties With some applications, a separate popup window provides the ability to edit the various labels, scale the series, and other advanced stuff
GHCN Temperature Plotter	This tool plots high quality GHCN (Global Historical Climatology Network) temperature data from more than 5,000 stations.
Radiation Models	LTspice First Look - a simple model of an airless rock in space CoolingCalc - This calculator simulates cooling to space (at 0K) by radiation alone Insolation Calculator - This calculator computes the amount of Sun light perpendicular (normal) to the surface of the Earth Warming Calculator - Estimate the change in temperature based on constant heating (energy imbalance)
MODTRAN	Various pages related to this radiation model Climate Sensitivity - How to estimate the change in surface temperature with a doubling of CO2 - about 0.7°C/doubling
Tool Library	TmcUITemperature Provides all 3 main temperature types

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