http://www.oercommons.org/browse/keyword/north-america daily 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.oercommons.org/courses/world-literatures-travel-writing-fall-2008 "This semester, we will read writing about travel and place from Columbus's Diario through the present. Travel writing has some special features that will shape both the content and the work for this subject: reflecting the point of view, narrative choices, and style of individuals, it also responds to the pressures of a real world only marginally under their control. Whether the traveler is a curious tourist, the leader of a national expedition, or a starving, half-naked survivor, the encounter with place shapes what travel writing can be. Accordingly, we will pay attention not only to narrative texts but to maps, objects, archives, and facts of various kinds. Our materials are organized around three regions: North America, Africa and the Atlantic world, the Arctic and Antarctic. The historical scope of these readings will allow us to know something not only about the experiences and writing strategies of individual travelers, but about the progressive integration of these regions into global economic, political, and knowledge systems. Whether we are looking at the production of an Inuit film for global audiences, or the mapping of a route across the North American continent by water, these materials do more than simply record or narrate experiences and territories: they also participate in shaping the world and what it means to us. Authors will include Olaudah Equiano, Caryl Philips, Claude L?vi-Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Jamaica Kincaid, William Least Heat Moon, Louise Erdrich, ?lvar N Fuller, Mary Humanities 2010-10-07T04:39:16 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/seasonal-north-america-surface-temperature-anomaly-january-1950-through-october-1998-fast Global surface temperatures in 1998 set a new record for the period of instrumental measurements, report researchers at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who analyze data collected from several thousand meteorological stations around the world. This visualization shows surface temperature anomalies from 1950 through November, 1998. The 1998 warmth was associated partly with a strong El Nino that warmed the air over the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean in the first half of the year and in turn affected weather around the world. Red and yellow colors indicate warmer than normal conditions and blue colors indicates cooler than normal conditions. James Hansen Jesse Allen Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/north-america-ndvi-1988-august NDVI in North America for August 1988, based off data collected over the 1981-2000 time frame. Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/north-america-ndvi-1988-august-anomaly NDVI Anomaly in North America for August 1988, based off data collected over the 1981-2000 time frame. Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/north-america-ndvi-1993-august NDVI in North America for August 1993, based off data collected over the 1981-2000 time frame. Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/north-america-ndvi-2000-july NDVI in North America for July 2000, based off data collected over the 1981-2000 time frame. Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/north-america-ndvi-2000-july-anomaly NDVI anomaly in North America for July 2000, based off data collected over the 1981-2000 time frame. Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/north-america-ndvi-average-august Average NDVI in North America for August, based off data collected over the 1981-2000 time frame. Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/north-america-ndvi-average-july Average NDVI in North America for July, based off data collected over the 1981-2000 time frame. Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/ceres-globe CERES stands for Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System. Stuart Snodgrass Yoram Kaufman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/ceres-to-misr-sequence CERES stands for Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System. Stuart Snodgrass Yoram Kaufman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/cloud-optical-thickness-effective-particle-radius MODIS provides new capabilities for measuring the properties of clouds. The sensor measures how much of the globe is covered by clouds, identifies various cloud types, and even enables scientists to determine the sizes of the particles that make up clouds. This latter measurement allows scientists to distinguish clouds made of water droplets from those made of ice crystals, and from those made of snow flakes. In this image, the blue clouds are ice clouds, pink indicates snow clouds, and green shows water clouds. Stuart Snodgrass Yoram Kaufman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/global-sea-surface-temperature-and-ndvi A rotating globe displaying Sea Surface Temperature and NDVI data. Stuart Snodgrass Yoram Kaufman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/global-sea-surface-temperature-without-land A Globe of Sea Surface Temperature Data Without Land Stuart Snodgrass Yoram Kaufman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/seasonal-ndvi-for-north-america-1981-2000-averaged-with-month-notation Seasonal NDVI for North America. 1981-2000 averaged with month notation. 15 frames-month Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/seasonal-ndvi-for-north-america-1981-2000-averaged-without-month-notation Seasonal NDVI for North America. 1981-2000 averaged without month notation. 15 frames-month Robert Mahoney Tom Bridgman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/modis-snow-cover-over-north-america The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used in an algorithm to map global snow cover. In this animation, a time series of global snow cover from MODIS-derived 8-day composite snow maps with a spatial resolution of about 5 km shows the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over North America during the winter of 2001-02. Cindy Starr Dorothy Hall Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/daily-snow-over-north-america-2002-2003-without-permafrost-map This animation shows daily snow cover over North America from September 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003. The sea ice climatology indicates the average extent of the sea ice during each month. Cindy Starr Dorothy Hall Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/fires-over-north-america-during-2001-and-2002 This animation shows fire activity over North America from 8-21-2001 to 8-20-2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and grey. A clock inset indicates the date. Chris Justice Cindy Starr Greg Shirah Robert Sohlberg Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/first-light-image-from-modis-second-draft Viewing the very first image from MODIS (second draft) Marte Newcombe Yoram Kaufman Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials