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Weather and Climate for Teachers
2011 Summer Teacher's Course
Day 2
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Session 3: Pressure, Density, Temperature, Buoyancy
- Engage & Explore
- Weighing air,
Pouring air,
Ideal gas laws (Molecules in a box),
Marshmallow masher,
Peep poofer,
Temperature changes on compression / expansion
- combined PDF file from Little Shop
of Physics
- Explain
- Gas laws, buoyancy,
Temperature structure of the atmosphere,
Parcels & the environment,
Lapse rates & stability
- Part 1,
PPT |
PDF
- Part 2,
PPT |
PDF
- Extend, Evaluate
- Temperature profiles of the atmosphere, and consequences for the
weather,
Matching graphs and pictures
- Full presentation
Session 4: Phases of Water, Latent Heat, and Clouds
- Different Voices
- Engage & Explore
- Transferring energy with water vapor,
Transpiration (fish tank over grass),
Heat packs,
Supercooled water,
Cloud in a bottle,
Vapor pressure, "Why can hot air hold more moisture than cold?",
Hand boiler
- combined PDF file from Little Shop
of Physics
- Explain
- Phases of water & latent heat,
Saturation, relative humidity, dew point,
Fog and clouds,
Moist vs. dry lapse rates and vertical motion,
Conditional stability
- Part 1,
PPT |
PDF
- Part 2,
PPT |
PDF
- Extend
- Moisture in the air / Evaporative cooling / relative humidity / dew
point
- Full presentation
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