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ASSIGNMENT NO.5
Click on Pat's WROC-TV Weather Page under Good's Weather and Climate Page
Go to El Nino and Savannah Area Weather and click
1. Write a brief paragraph of what you found about El Nino.
Click on OPEN and type in http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/ Click on Weather World 2010. Click on El Nino
2. Click on one of the topics and write a long paragraph of what you found?
Click on Weather World 2010. Click on Online Guides. Click on Projects and Activities. Click on teacher guides
Pick a guide, tell me which one, and then:
3. Comment on the guide as a potential teaching unit for school
children.
Go back and click on anything on the Univ. of Illinois, Department of Atmospheric Sciences home page.
4. Look over and briefly explain what you found.
Go to Intellicast on Good's Page under Weather
and Climate.
Click on Satellite under Int'l Weather
Explain the following patterns:
5. Where is the ITCZ? (look for zone of clouds and rain {red & yellow color} running e-w across the world) How did you recognize it? What causes the ITCZ?
6. Look at the satellite and give time and date and explain any unusual wet
area (lots of clouds). Any reason to expect wetness in such areas. Look
for the Sahara Desert. Is it dry? If so, why.
7. Give a general interpretation of the World Satellite Image.
Go back to Dr. Dewpoint. Click on Weather Q and A. Click on What is dewpoint?
8. What is dewpoint?
9. Go to question: I saw your weather site on the WWW and was wondering if you could help me find the cities with the most days of rain? Where are the two wettest cities on earth and how much precipitation do
they get?
10. Don't ask Mr. Dewpoint, but what do you think the reasons are for these
places being the wettest places on earth?
11. What is the Pineapple Connection?
Go back to Article Library by the Doctor
12. Click on one of Dr. Dewpoint's latest articles? Write a paragraph about it
Go to Weather 101 on the left and click on Twenty Questions: A Weather Knowledge Test.
13. Pick 5 questions and summarize. How many of these did you get right?
Click on Article Library by Dr. Dewpoint. Click on Weather and Health.
14. Pick one and describe what you see here. What do you think about this?
15. If you had to ask Dr. Dewpoint a question, what would it be?
Go back to Intellicast Home Page and click on anything
16. What did you click on and briefly describe what you saw.
Email assignment #5 to Prof. Good at [email protected]