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2-2 Final Project Milestone One:
Identifying and Investigating the Data
Southern New Hampshire University
SCI-310: Geostatistics and Data Analysis
Emily Donahue
November 5, 2023
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Temperature and precipitation are two of the most important factors to consider when it
comes to meteorological analysis. They are basic measurements for describing weather and
climate that have wide-ranging effects on ecosystems. Changes in temperature cause changes in
precipitation and vice versa. The question I plan to investigate is: What is the relationship
between precipitation and temperature? I want to see how temperatures change after precipitation
occurs. I will analyze data from numerous stations to answer this question. I am trying to better
understand the relationship between changes in precipitation and temperature with the data
sample I collect.
The state that I will be observing for this project is the state of Tennessee. Tennessee is
my home state, and it has a moderate climate. It experiences four distinct seasons with warm,
humid summers and cool winters. Temperature averages around 40 degrees in the winter and 83
in the summer. Precipitation is abundant and occurs year-round throughout the state. I will be
sourcing a year’s worth of data from each station to obtain an accurate and diversified data
sample. Tennessee’s variety in weather conditions throughout the year will make this state a good
option for observation for this report. (ETSU, n.d.)
The data fields that I will be focusing on for this report will be precipitation, high
temperature, and low temperature. The locations within my state that I will use in my analysis
are all located within the Middle Tennessee region. I have chosen twenty stations located across
this region to collect precipitation and temperature data. The time range that I have chosen is
October 1
st,
2022, to October 1
st,
2023, which will give me a year’s worth of data. All these
locations did not have the average daily temperature data available, which I need to answer my
question. I will be estimating the daily average temperature by averaging the daily high and low
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