Image from : Here or https://www.australianenvironmentaleducation.com.au/education-resources/earths-atmosphere/
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So at 5 Km you are above approx 50% of the air
And at 10 Km (int flight) about 75% is below you Its NOT a very thick blanket !!! |
Live tracking: https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/newzealand/wanaka.htm
Looks an aweful lot like that Chinese "Spy" one the US shot down a few months ago ???
Also the second one... what happened to that... LINK here
Looks an aweful lot like that Chinese "Spy" one the US shot down a few months ago ???
Also the second one... what happened to that... LINK here
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Made this little video with the FLIR camera ..... what about that sky then..... hmmm why not showing in browser? (works in Editor)
or Download the file maybe? |
Here is something to do if one of us is away for a bit....
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this is a bit rubbish.... try the link over to the left :)
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Note the log scale
http://allexamtips.com/2014/04/layers-of-atmosphere/
http://allexamtips.com/2014/04/layers-of-atmosphere/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/science/atmosphere-layers2.html
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A quick quizz or an online lesson on:
Layers of the atmosphere
Layers of the atmosphere
A Powerpoint on atmosphere layers and aerosols (courtesy of Jenny P NCG)
And a Powerpoint on water and energy
And a Powerpoint on water and energy
What is happenening here?
Here is a clue
Aussie bushfires.... interesting read
What about this?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/113810848/astronauts-snap-volcano-erupting-after-nearly-a-century-of-silence
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/113810848/astronauts-snap-volcano-erupting-after-nearly-a-century-of-silence
Jim Renwick interview....Radio NZ 6/6/23
Covers Carbon and Tonga volcano... and impacts of
there is a copy in the Teams Files
Well worth a read: (looks at effect of all the aerosols ejected)...
Also go to the journal research article too (link in the CNN article)
Tonga eruption blasted enough water to fill 58,000 Olympic pools into the Earth's atmosphere, NASA says
Also go to the journal research article too (link in the CNN article)
Tonga eruption blasted enough water to fill 58,000 Olympic pools into the Earth's atmosphere, NASA says
And this...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/113917827/body-of-stowaway-found-in-uk-garden-fell-from-plane
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/113917827/body-of-stowaway-found-in-uk-garden-fell-from-plane
Atmospheric circulation
- Convection cells ...... Hadley, Ferrel, Polar - Wind belts ...... Trade, Westerlies, Polar Easterlies, Doldrums - Coriolis effect
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Godwit tracking: Link here It could be argued that these wee guys are going with the 4 main wind belts in the 4 circulation cells they cross on their trip back "home" Explain (wouldnt that be a good exam question?) in fact here is one I wrote... download the file and have a go
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Walker cell at the equator....
Another cool image to connect to our learning
Weather
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Cyclone Fani (3 days of images).... few dozen dead cf 10 000 dead in 1999 cyclone
Why/how did it grow?
Why did it fizzle out?
Why not 1000's dead?
Why/how did it grow?
Why did it fizzle out?
Why not 1000's dead?
Good BBC clip on Hurricanes
Maui vs Te Wai Pounamu .....click here for the task
And here are some pretty darn good student reports: G, J & M C & B J
And here are some pretty darn good student reports: G, J & M C & B J
Can we explain this......
On the same day!!! (Nov 8, 2018) there was flooding on the West Coast but it was a scorcher in Cheviot (East coast)
News article
On the same day!!! (Nov 8, 2018) there was flooding on the West Coast but it was a scorcher in Cheviot (East coast)
News article
The physics of FOG from: metservice https://blog.metservice.com/Fog
\Canada's killer heat wave
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57665715 What word comes to mind? |
Scott Base looks like it is rather warmer than we would expect:
Climate
Global and regional trends. Temperature, precipitation, weather.
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Drilling into Antarctic ice... link here
A couple of reasonably complex PDF's on climate change... maybe worth a look
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Click on the image and work thru the exercise
Climate change task here
This is today's reading at Mauna Loa (when I was a student it was around 320ppm !) Nice site about past and present CO2... https://www.co2.earth/ https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p077x0m7/why-did-an-entire-civilisation-vanish- |
Climate change feedbacks.. positive and negative (feedbacks sheet)
Todays news, Artic heatwave: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53140069
HOW does each of these affect atm temp and thus climate
HOW does each of these affect atm temp and thus climate
- melting of sea ice (think albedo)
- melting of permafrost (think albedo and think methane)
- increased water vapour (think GHG)
- increased cloud - not same as water vapour (think albedo and think GHG)
- increased ocean temp
- desertification
Look at this link about the carbon cycle and then have a go at the worksheet
Now go look at Carbon in the ocean for a bit of revision / link to this topic
Revision worksheet marking schedule