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Cancel the Cardinals Home Opener?!?

Lessons in Melting and Evaporation

By Patrick S. Market

Cancel the Cardinals Home Opener?!?


 

Abstract

The St. Louis Cardinals are scheduled to play their home opener the next day and Megan Riley, a young meteorologist who works for a private weather consulting firm, is responsible for developing the weather forecast. It’s starting to look like she may need to change her current forecast for rain to snow. Students work in small groups to analyze information presented in each part of this multi-part dilemma case and, along the way, are asked to update their forecast: keep it as rain, or revise it to snow. The case has been used both in an introductory meteorology course and in a capstone course for seniors in atmospheric science.

   

Date Posted

04/25/2005

Overview

Objectives

  • Undertstand that temperature is a measure of energy.
  • Learn that energy transfer impact on water (vapor) has the opposite effect on the air.
  • Learn key weather forecasting concepts.

Keywords

Wet bulb temperature; dew point temperature; precipitation; rain; snow; sublimation; evaporation; condensation; freezing; melting; weather forecasting

  

Subject Headings

Atmospheric Science
Climatology / Meteorology
Earth Science

EDUCATIONAL LEVEL

High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division

  

FORMAT

PDF

   

TOPICAL AREAS

N/A

   

LANGUAGE

English

   

TYPE/METHODS

Dilemma/Decision, Interrupted

 

 

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