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8.2.57.14 tblish.dataset.co2 ¶

Static Method: out = co2 () ¶

Mauna Loa Atmospheric CO2 Concentration

Description ¶

Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are expressed in parts per million (ppm) and reported in the preliminary 1997 SIO manometric mole fraction scale. Contains monthly observations from 1959 to 1997.

Format ¶

date

Date of the month of the observation, as datetime.

co2

CO2 concentration (ppm).

Details ¶

The values for February, March and April of 1964 were missing and have been obtained by interpolating linearly between the values for January and May of 1964.

Source ¶

Keeling, C. D. and Whorf, T. P., Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California, La Jolla, California USA 92093-0220.

ftp://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pub/maunaloa-co2/maunaloa.co2.

References ¶

Cleveland, W. S. (1993). Visualizing Data. New Jersey: Summit Press.

Examples ¶

t = tblish.dataset.co2;

plot (datenum (t.date), t.co2);
datetick ("x");
xlabel ("Time"); ylabel ("Atmospheric concentration of CO2");
title ("co2 data set");