Climate Data
spreadsheet data analysis
Prepared for GUTS PD 1/11
Harry Henderson and Betsy Frederick
Josh Thorp and Melissa Gibbons
http://weather.nmsu.edu/
Choose raw daily.
Let’s pick 2008 till present.
then pick Santa Fe
County Municipal Airport
Then click submit.
It should look something like this:
Select all [ctrl-a], copy [ctrl-c]. Then open a
notepad.
On a Mac, use TextEdit
Paste into notepad (or TextEdit) [ctrl-v]. In
TextEdit, select “Plain Text” under “Format”
Save the notepad and then open it into
Excel and choose “text file” type.
Now choose delimited, then Next.
Unselect TAB, select OTHER, and enter “|”
(pipe) then choose Finish.
Let’s start playing with the data.
Select Chart Wizard from
your Toolbar
Choose SCATTER [only markers] and click Next.
Select Series, click Add
For Series 1, Name = Max Temp, X values =
Dates (A11-A1104), Y values = B11-B1104
Add two more series:
Min Temp and Mean Temp.
X values are the same, Y values are D11-D1104
for Min and F11-F1104 for Mean.
Click Finish to add Chart to Worksheet.
120
100
80
60
Max Temp
Min Temp
Mean Temp
40
20
0
6/29/07
1/15/08
8/2/08
2/18/09
9/6/09
3/25/10
-20
Ta Da!
10/11/10
4/29/11