This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about atmospheric moisture. These questions encourage students to examine dew point, relative humidity, condensation, precipitation, snow/liquid ratios, heat index, air temperature, acid rain, and how to analyze a weather map. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using ... Full description.

This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about weather and climate. These questions encourage students to examine the effects of weather on transportation, agricultural, forestry, and banking systems. Other questions explore typical temperature and wind direction patterns, cold fronts, warm fronts, climates in relation to latitude, altitude, continentality, weather ... Full description.

This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about air pressure and wind. These questions encourage students to examine surface air pressure, temperature, air density, incoming solar radiation, gravity, pressure gradient, Coriolis and friction forces, unequal heating, making wind forecasts, earth's semi-permanent pressure zones, and drawing flow directions and pressure ... Full description.

This page contains several visualizations which have been prepared in the course of the Global Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's (GFDL) research. Images cover topics such as hurricanes, global warming, radiative transfer, stratospheric processes, El Nino, cyclones and storms, Jupiter and Mars. Some topics also include animations and detailed descriptions. These are offered as examples of various visualization ... Full description.

In this Plank's Radiation exercise, students use an existing Excel workbook to investigate how spectral irradiance from a blackbody radiator depends on temperature, and to clearly see the connection between Planck's Radiation law, and the Stefan-Boltzman and Wien Radiation laws. Students adjust the solar temperature to get the best fit between observations and the spectral irradiance calculated from ... Full description.

Students explore a Global Energy Balance Climate Model Using Stella II. This Stella model focuses on global energy balance and creating a useful climate model. Students can explore how the model planetary surface and atmospheric temperatures respond to variations in solar input, atmospheric and surface albedo, atmospheric water vapor and carbon dioxide, volcanic eruptions, and mixed layer ocean depth. ... Full description.

The Daisy World model is intended to illustrate a mechanism through which biota might optimize their environment by means of negative feedback. The model offers a very simplified approach to a feedback system and can provide an introductory lesson in how models work. The aim of the model is to implement and test a mathematical model describing possible influence of biota on an abiotic (climatic) system ... Full description.

This product site for Weather Graphics Technology contains a large collection of weather-related software programs, books, videos, archived weather data, paper charts and a list of services. Weather Graphics Technologies is featuring a new digital atmosphere workstation which is hailed as one of the most popular meteorological (spelling fixed) tools available under Windows. They also offer RAOB, WX-SIM, ... Full description.

The Solar Influences Data Analysis Center (SIDC) is the World Data Center for the Sunspot Index. SIDC (RWC Belgium) calculates the daily, monthly and yearly International Sunspot Numbers and provides daily Space Weather forecasts and warnings. Their goal is to provide fast warning and real time monitoring of space weather, forecasts and middle term analysis and post event analysis and long term solar ... Full description.

The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) key objective is the prediction of atmospheric and climate changes in the 21st century. On this website, the GISS provides data and images regarding the earth and atmosphere. Users can access earth observations; such as storms, aerosols, temperature, etc., climate forcings; global climate modeling; radiation and astrophysics data. Full description.