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This project also had a lot of options in terms of looking at data of the responding variables to the increase in carbon dioxide. Rather than use wildfires as the indication of climate change, the project could have been based around the melting of ice sheets, rising ocean levels, or even reduced snowfall in the mountains. Wildfire severity was chosen because it has a more abstract application, and it should increase as the climate gets warmer and drier, showing more correlation back to climate change.  \section{Implementation Phase}   \subsection{Assumptions and Boundary Conditions}  This project covers a broad range of subjects, and finding data for all of the subjects can be difficult. This was the main restriction on the project. For example, there are only two data sets to go off of use  for the wildfire data. However, the carbon dioxide data was the easiest to access because it is kept by the EPA on their .gov site. This means that the data is free to use, and is open access. The other sets of data did not have the same advantages. \par  The other main restriction was the time that the group had to work. Climate change is one of the biggest and most a very  broad issues out there. issue with many different datasets from around the world.  Exploring every avenue wasjust  simply not possible, so the workload was fine-tuned and filed down to a reasonable level for a three week project. This was also the hardest boundary to deal with, because it is very easy to go over board when gathering information, and figuring out what is actually useful is difficult. \subsection{Timeline}    \begin{center} 

\end{center}  \subsection{Data Acquisition}  Finding and downloading all of the data necessary took a lot of time and effort. When the project was in its initial workings, it was required that possible locations for data were written down. recorded.  So, the research for data started with the marked down those  websites and locations. \par  The carbon dioxide was found on the website originally taken down. recorded.  NOAA holds data on carbon dioxide concentrations from around the world. The data was taken from locations like the Black Sea, Barrow, and even Guam. By taking the data from such varied locations, it gives a better world perspective on how much the carbon dioxide concentrations are changing. \par  The data acquired for the carbon dioxide analysis came from flask data sets. Flask data is taken by scientists who know the volume of the flask, and then do certain tests on the volume of air to determine what the concentration is in parts per million. Collecting this type of data was consistent across all of the sets. There were multiple options to choose from that were not specifically flask data.  \par 

\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{co2all}  \end{figure}  \par  lkdsjg sdffd    %Luke and Whitney put your data aquisition here, I would have done it but I have no idea how you guys collected your data.  \subsection{Data Reduction and Processing}