Weather Assignment

Dr. Pamela Gore
Georgia Perimeter College

Getting started:

1. Read your web course notes on Meteorology (Basic Introduction to Weather, Wind and Global Wind Systems, Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, and Hurricanes, and Air Pollution).
2. See Ch. 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 in your textbook (11th edition). Concentrate on the parts related to the standards and the course notes.
3. You will need your sling psychrometer.

Instructions:

1. Collect weather data for two weeks during this semester. You can measure it directly, find it in the newspaper, or find it online. Keep your data in a computer spreadsheet program.
   See this exercise for more information on the procedure to follow.
   1. High temperature for the day
   2. Low temperature for the day
   3. Amount of rainfall
   4. Barometric pressure
   5. Relative humidity
   6. Cloud type (optional)

2. Do Exercise 12 (Earth-Sun Relations) in your lab manual. (No need to do online lab manual things.)

3. Do Exercise 14 (Atmospheric Moisture, Pressure and Wind) in your lab manual. (No need to do online lab manual things.)

4. Do NOAA Hurricane Activity. Worksheet.
5. Plot the course of Hurricane Ivan (September 2004) or Katrina (August 2005) or a current hurricane on a hurricane-tracking map.
Other tracking maps (NOAA, Weather Channel)
6. Do NOAA Tornado Activity. Worksheet.
7. Do NOAA Lightning Activity. Worksheet.

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Georgia Perimeter College,
Clarkston, GA

Page created May 7, 2005
Updated May 24, 2006
Updated June 30, 2009