APES lab notes: Global Weather
- Start with windy.com
- Find the forecast for the next few days here
- Find the forecast for where you are from, or want to go to college
- Find at least two places in the world with the worst air quality
- Find at least two places with the warmest ocean. What might start there?
- Find two places with the highest wind speed-why?
- Find a hurricane or typhoon. Which direction is the wind around it in the northern hemisphere? The southern? Why?
- What do you notice about the wave action near these?
- Look this location up on the world satellite images. What do you notice?
- Where do you find the most thunderstorms-why?
- Find places on both hemispheres where wind is traveling counterclockwise-is this low or high pressure?
- Do the same for clockwise air circulation-why is this?
- Why are there so many clouds in the ITCZ? (look this up)
- The salinity of the ocean is lower in the ITCZ-why?
- Look on weather.hawaii.edu for local radar. what do you see that relates to what you see on windy?
- Look at the wind direction over India. What happens next? How is this similar to Waipio Valley?
- Look up Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells. How can you see them on the map?
- Look at the wind at the surface here, and compare with the wind at higher altitudes (look for the slider labeled "surface" on the right).
- Look at our island under “temeprature” and “humidity”. How are these related?
- Under the “More layers” find NO2 and find where this is highest-why?
- Try also with Ozone and PM2.5 (small soot particles). Where are these found?
- Also enable CAPE index. Look this up, then look at our island. Why are these units in J/kg?
- Will it rain tonight for Lava lounge? If so, from which direction?
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