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.