Source: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory — Mauna Loa
monthly mean CO₂
What it is: Monthly average atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa
(1958–present) with columns for average, interpolated,
trend, and number of days.
Columns & attribute types (VAD):
year — time (ordered)month (1–12) — ordered (cyclic)decimal_date — quantitative (continuous)average (ppm) — quantitativeinterpolated (ppm) — quantitativetrend (ppm) — quantitativedays — quantitative (count)Notes: The original CSV includes comment lines starting
with #. The code strips those before parsing.