02c53cf7-nca3-cddv2-r1-process

Values of average Texas summer temperature vs precipitation were displayed on a scatter plot, for each year from 1895-2012.

Seasonal average values of temperature and precipitation for Texas were calculated from annual data, for the period 1895-2012. Summer values of temperature vs precipitation were then displayed on a scatter plot for each year, with data points for select years subsequently changed to a different color. The 2011 data point was also increased in size to highlight the record heat and drought that occurred that year.

The duration of this activity was 6 hours.

Output artifacts generated by this activity :

tx.ave.prcp
tx.ave.tave
texas_tave_prcp_scatter.pro
tx.summary.prcp.txt
tx.summary.tave.txt
texas_scatter_updated.xlsx
WEL_texas scatter plot_V3.png

This activity resulted in the following :

• image 02c53cf7-75f8-4243-a925-f59a0025f04e was derived from dataset U.S. Climate Divisional Dataset Version 2

Computing environment : Mac OS X (darwin x86_64 m64)

Software used : IDL (version 8.0); Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 Version 14.3.9 (131030)

Visualization software used : Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 Version 14.3.9 (131030)

Notes : IDL was used to perform numerical calculations and Microsoft Excel was used to visualize the data.