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Weather and Climate for Teachers
2010 Summer Teacher's Course
Day 4
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Session 7: Rotation and Global Circulation
- Explain
- Review ideas of the poleward energy transport and the forces due to the
earth's rotation
- How the rotation of the earth affectts the motion of air, water and
energy in the atmosphere
- Full presentation,
PPT |
PDF
- Extend
- Explain
- How the mostion of air, water and energy in the atmosphere explains
the earth's climate zones
- Full presentation,
PPT |
PDF
- Extend
Session 8: Fronts and Storms
- Evaluate
- Engage & Explore
- Explain
- Temperature gradients
- Life cycle of a midlatitude cyclone
- Convergence and divergence
- Warm and cold advection
- Cold and warm fronts
- Full presentation,
PPT |
PDF
- Extend
- Look at a station plot: Find hows and highs, find warm and cold fronts
& Numerical weather prediction
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