A bomb cyclone can cause cold and stormy winter weather. Watch this video to discover what makes a bomb cyclone.
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In this activity, students will compare stories about a weather event from different media sources and different perspectives.
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What kind of technology did scientists use long ago to measure the atmosphere? Discover the lengths people went to in order to explore the atmosphere.
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The atmosphere stretches far above Earth's surface, all the way to the limits of space. How do we study the atmosphere and what is happening within it near the ground, at different altitudes above our heads, and over both land and ocean?
How is air pollution affected by weather? Some types of pollution are worse in the summer heat, while others are worse in cold winter weather.
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Energy from the Sun includes visible radiation in all its colors of the spectrum, and invisible radiation including infrared, ultraviolet, and other energy types. Many of the optical phenomena we observe in our sky are due to how the Sun's light interacts with our atmosphere but the light we see is only a part of the total energy received.
"As far back as I can remember, I've always been curious about storms," says Aaron Pratt. When he was a small boy, his mother compared him to Sesame Street's Count von Count because they both got so excited whenever there was thunder and lightning.
Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the 21st Century.
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Why is the sky blue, or sometimes red and orange? What causes rainbows? Find out here.
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Wind is air moving from a place that has higher pressure to one that has lower pressure. Sometimes wind is just a light breeze and other times it is strong enough to blow the roofs off buildings.
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