A dark funnel of cloud extends below a storm. If it reaches the ground, it’s a tornado.
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When a front passes over an area, it means a change in the weather. Many fronts cause weather events such as rain, thunderstorms, gusty winds and tornadoes.
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Students analyze and interpret data on a map of floodplains to assess risk of flooding inform decision-making that will mitigate the effects of flooding.
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From an early age, Mari enjoyed making things work, taking them apart and trying to put them back together, but she was most fascinated by the interaction between nature and humans – particularly where water was concerned. Today she works at NCAR's Engineering for Climate Extremes Partnership (ECEP) at the intersection of her interests and talents.
Using language arts, math, and measurement skills, elementary students explore rainfall data and learn how to measure precipitation through an interactive story.
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Students examine "pollen" in simulated lake bottom sediment core samples to infer past climate in the vicinity of the lake.
This web series tells the story of the lengths people went to in order to explore the atmosphere and the technologies they used to get high in the sky and make measurements.
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Students explore the relationship between weather and climate by graphing weather temperature data and comparing with climate averages.
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One morning, six-year-old Ying-Hwa Kuo woke on his family's rice farm in Tai Chung, in west-central Taiwan, to a world transformed. A typhoon—the name for hurricanes in the Northwest Pacific—had brought intense rain and flooding.
Students receive data about tree ring records, solar activity, and volcanic eruptions during the Little Ice Age (AD 1350–1850). By comparing and contrasting time intervals when tree growth was at a minimum, solar activity was low, and major volcanic eruptions occurred, they draw conclusions about possible natural causes of climate change.
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