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Web
site
includes
shares
the
images,
stories
and
discoveries
that
emerge
from
NASA
Earth
science
research,
including
its
satellite
missions,
in-the-field
research
and
climate
models.
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and
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and
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World
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This
lesson
plan
uses
NASA
satellite
data
to
contrast
amounts
of
cloud
coverage
over
different
climate
regions
in
Africa.
It
introduces
the
circulation
pattern
of
Hadley
Cells
and
the
band
of
convergence
and
convection
called
the
Intertropical
Convergence
Zone
(ITCZ).
The
lesson
also
discusses
how
frequent
cloud
cover
and
precipitation
occur
along
the
ITCZ
and
how
climate
affects
the
people
living
...
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