README.md

Keeling curve

Monthly mean CO₂ in the air at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, from March 1958, as NOAA's Global Monitoring Laboratory publishes it, with the notebook that reads and plots it.

File What it holds
data/co2_mm_mlo.csv NOAA's file of 9 October 2026, unchanged: year, month, decimal date, monthly mean, deseasonalized, days, sd, uncertainty
  • Source: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ (NOAA GML); before May 1974, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, https://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/.
  • Terms: NOAA makes the data freely available and asks to be cited: Lan, X., Tans, P. and Thoning, K. W., Trends in globally-averaged CO₂ determined from NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory measurements.
  • Read it: sh.load("sciencehub-team/keeling-curve").load_co2(), or pd.read_csv("sciencehub://sciencehub-team/keeling-curve/data/co2_mm_mlo.csv", comment="#").