klymot labs
Hands-on explorations of climate data.
Sunshine & Temperature
Explore the relationship between incoming solar radiation and surface temperature using pyranometer recordings and GHCN station records.
Lab 02Network Altitude
How has the shifting altitude profile of the global temperature station network changed over time? Follow the physics, then check.
Lab 03The Cherry-Picking Machine
Every quoted temperature trend rests on two choices: how many years, and which ones. Drag a window along a real station record, tally every trend you pass over, and see where the whole record lands in the distribution you built.
Lab 04Build Your Own Error Bars — Sunshine
Where a pyranometer exists, sunshine is measured; everywhere else the number comes from a model. Put decades of real solar measurements next to the model's estimate for the same spot, build the distribution of their disagreements, freeze an error band around it — then test whether that band holds at a site it has never seen.
Lab 05Build Your Own Error Bars — Temperature
Weather archives hold two kinds of number for the same place and month: what a thermometer recorded, and what a weather model reconstructs. Put a station's own record next to the model's reconstruction for the same spot, build the distribution of their disagreements, freeze an error band around it — then test whether that band holds at a station it has never seen.
Lab 06Airless Body Thermal Model
How much of the Moon's temperature can sunlight, conduction, and radiation alone explain? Choose a conductivity model, set the parameters, run the simulation in your browser, and compare the result with NASA's measured lunar temperatures.
Lab 07The Thermometer Shop
Every daily max and min in the historical record was written down by a particular instrument, in a particular shelter, on a particular schedule. Fill a cart with real instrument designs from the 1780s to today, run one identical simulated day through all of them, and read what each receipt says.