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Exploring Temperature & Pressure Changes with Height
http://www.dpc.ucar.edu/vgee/t1a2s.htm
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Using the VGEE Visualization Environment, this activity enables students to create 5D visualizations of pressure and temperature changes at sea level and higher in the atmosphere. The VGEE curriculum links to atmospheric and oceanic data using Thematic Real-time Earth Distributed Data Servers (THREDDS) services and includes a visualization tool that is an educational instance of the Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) developed by Unidata. This tool is a Java-based program that lets users construct realistic 3D graphics and animations of what is occurring within a dataset. 5D refers to the three spatial dimensions plus time and multiple variables.
Intended for grade levels:
  • High (9-12)
  • College (13-14)
  • College (15-16)
  • Graduate / Professional
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Computer activity
    • Lab activity
  • Dataset:
    • Remotely sensed
Subject:
  • Atmospheric science
Technical requirements:
Java Web Start, VGEE Visualization Environment
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright 2002, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. All rights reserved.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-003-766
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • 9-12:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Change, constancy, and measurement
        • Evidence, models, and explanation
        • Systems, order, and organization
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
        • Understandings about scientific inquiry
      • G - History and nature of science:
        • Nature of scientific knowledge
        • Science as a human endeavor
  • National Geography Standards:
    • The world in spatial terms:
      • How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Principal Investigator: Dr Rajul Pandya
DLESE Program Center