An Introduction to Complex Systems data sources

Chapter 2: Global Warming

Historic atmospheric CO2 data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administriation (NOAA)
Ocean acidification data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administriation (NOAA)

Chapter 3: Systems Theory

Example 3.5: Tables of energy return on investment (EROEI) estimates
Example 3.7: Data on global energy flows

Chapter 4: Dynamic Systems

Figure 4.7: Historic Atmospheric CO2 Data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administriation (NOAA)
Figure 4.7: S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index data
Example 4.3: Data from the University of Waterloo Weather Station
Case Study 4: Data from NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Case Study 4: Ocean/tide height data from Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Case Study 4: Sea level data from CSIRO

Chapter 5: Linear Systems

Table 5.1: Original CVS file and simplied/rounded CVS file dynamic matrices for tropical rainforest ecology

Chapter 6: Nonlinear Dynamic Systems — Uncoupled

Figure 6.21: Temperature and climate data

Chapter 9: Power Laws and Non-Gaussian Systems

Figure 9.4: Forbes - The World's Billionaires
Figure 9.4: List of words and occurrence in this textbook
Figure 9.4: Lists of earthquakes
Figure 9.4: Journal paper citation statistics for Computer Science from CiteSeer
Figure 9.8: Canadian business wealth data
Figure 9.8: List of words and occurrence in chapter 5 of this textbook
Example 9.3: Data from the University of Waterloo Weather Station Example 9.5: Lists of City Populations from the City mayors website
Example 9.5: GDP by state and city

Chapter 11: Observation and Inference

Figure 11.15: Data from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR)

Chapter 12: Water

Section 12.1: Ocean Acidification Data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administriation (NOAA)