IFSM 201
Name:______________________

Using the stations database at the class web site, answer these
 by using sorting, finding, and filtering.
The database contains information for 7280 weather stations around the world.  
Read the fields' descriptions to get an idea
 of what each means and what possible values it can contain.
This is a common kind of database table. Many fields with cryptic codes.

"Bold edit" your answers. Print narrow margins, double-sided.

What station has the hottest annual temperature:

What station has the lowest elevation:

What is the southernmost station:

What is the wettest station on Earth:

What is the elevation of La Paz, Bolivia:

What is the latitude and longitude of Naha:

What is its annual average temperature:

What is its annual precipitation:


How many United States stations are there:

Find your hometown, or a closeby station, what is it:

 What is its latitude and longitude:

 What is its annual temperature and annual precipitation:

 What is its Koeppen climate classification:



How many stations in the world are at an airport:

 Of those, how many are rural:

  Of those, how many are mountainous valleys:

   Of those, how many are in Mexico:


What is the wettest station in the USA:

What is the southernmost station in the USA:

What is the northernmost station in the USA:

Of the mountainous stations in the USA, which two have
a Koeppen classification of ET (arctic tundra):

Of the USA's BWh (hot desert) stations, the most populous is:
(it's the population of the metropolitan area)

The second-most dryest station in the USA:

Which two USA states have a tropical rain forest climate (Koeppen Af):


What is the coldest annual temperature station in Japan that is not a mountain:


Brazil's most populous Aw (Koeppen tropical savanna climate) station: