Discover how a weather front can cause clouds and storms with rain or snow.
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The amount of water vapor in the air is called humidity.
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With visualizations we can see the entire planet from all angles at once. We can see the invisible – such as water vapor in the atmosphere and the way air flows around the world.
NCAR scientist Falko Judt, talks about chaos theory, the butterfly effect, and why we will (likely) never be able to forecast the weather for more than 3 weeks into the future.
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Students match graphs showing aspects of observed climate change with statements that describe the observations.
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Animation showing the monthly variation of sea ice extent in the Antarctic from 2016 through 2018.
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When climate conditions, such as temperature and precipitation, vary from the expected averages this is called climate variability. Natural changes in the Earth system can cause climate variability, but scientists are concerned about climate variability resulting from human-caused climate change.
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