COSEE-West “Cloud Structure, Composition, and Feedbacks in the current climate and a warming world” February 3, 2010 & February 6, 2010 Resources WEBSITES Our Speaker Dr. Terence (Terry) Kubar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Kubar/ Water and Carbon Cycles http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/COSE/WaterCarbon/index.cfm (part of the Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Surfaces group in the JPL Science Division) CloudSat information CloudSat Home page http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/ CloudSat overview http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/main/index.html “CloudSat: Looking Inside Clouds” streaming video http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/on_demand_video.html?param=/mov/14 6890main_03-27-06cloudsat- 320cc.mov&_id=78572&_title=CloudSat%3A%20Looking%20Inside%20Clouds&_tnima ge=146889main_clouds-th.jpg CloudSat Art Gallery including: The Story of Clouds, Clouds and Culture, Cloud Classification http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/cloud_art Photographs, images, etc. from NASA with anything to do with CloudSat http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/view/all/what/CloudSat Google Maps Cloudsat Browser! CloudSat/MODIS Joint Atmosphere Map Browser http://meteo04.chpc.utah.edu/cgi-bin/cloudsat/browser/gmap.pl CloudSat Data Processing Center http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/ Articles about the CloudSat mission “Graeme Stephens describes satellite's look at Earth's water cycle” (90 second EarthSky interview) AUDIO and script http://www.earthsky.org/interviewpost/earth/graeme-stephens-describes-satellites- look-at-earths-water-cycle COSEE-West “Cloud Structure, Composition, and Feedbacks in the current climate and a warming world” February 3, 2010 & February 6, 2010 Resources “CloudSat: How Clouds Relate to Climate” Space Today Online: Covering Space from Earth to the Edge of the Universe, © 2004 http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/TerraAqua/CloudSatStory.html “CloudSat to Revolutionize Study of Clouds and Climate” Science Daily, May 4, 1999 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/05/990504070907.htm “First Images from NASA’s CloudSat have Scientists Sky High” PR/Newswire, 6 June 2006 http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/529606/first_images_from_nasas_cloudsat_ha ve_scientists_sky_high/index.html “NASA’s CloudSat Snaps 3D Weather” by Lester Haines, The Register (UK), 7 June 2006 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/cloudsat_images/ Cloud Identification Charts, Classification, Atmosphere diagrams Cloud Atlas with simple schematics from Bob Houze at the University of Washington http://www.atmos.washington.edu/Atlas/index.html A very simple cloud schematic with some definitions http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/clouds/ NASA/NOAA Cloud Chart: Introduction to Clouds With tips on cloud identification, cloud quiz, dichotomous cloud key, online cloud chart http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/cloud_chart/ cloud type tutorial (video/animation) http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/tutorial/clouds/cloudtypes.html one page cloud chart to print in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/Cloud_ID.php NOAA/NWS and NASA’S Sky Watcher Chart front and back Newer version: www.nws.noaa.gov/os/brochures/cloudchart.pdf Older version: www.arh.noaa.gov/brochures/docs/CloudChart.pdf Layers of the earth’s atmosphere, UCAR Windows to the Universe www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/images/stratosphere_diagra m_big_jpg_image.html&fr=t start here to explore the UCAR site on the atmosphere from the beginning: www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/overview.html&fr=t COSEE-West “Cloud Structure, Composition, and Feedbacks in the current climate and a warming world” February 3, 2010 & February 6, 2010 Resources Cloud Basics to Cloud Microphysics How Big Is a Cloud? (Earthwatch Radio script, 2006) It might seem simple to look up in the sky and see how cloudy it is. But the closer you look, the harder it gets. http://ewradio.org/program.aspx?ProgramID=4199 NASA: The Role of Clouds http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/rolecld.html with simple diagram of the earth’s heat budget http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/cloudeffects.jpg Claire Parkinson discusses uses of the Aqua satellite data, 2009 www.earthsky.org/interviewpost/earth/claire-parkinson-uses-aqua-satellite-to-view- whole-earth Primer on clouds, including formation mechanisms, cloud types, and precipitation www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/education/teachers_guides/module7_clouds_e.html#cbasic Cloud microphysics professor at the University of Washington www.atmos.washington.edu/~robwood Clouds, weather, climate, and climate change Climate VS. Weather: What’s the difference? EPA For Kids: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/climateweather.html NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html NCAR & UCAR: http://eo.ucar.edu/basics/ Bruce Wielicki on clouds and Earth's energy balance http://www.earthsky.org/interviewpost/earth/bruce-wielicki-on-clouds-and-earths- energy-balance Ilan Koren on smoke and clouds over the Amazon http://www.earthsky.org/interviewpost/earth/ilan-koren-on-smoke-and-clouds- over-the-amazon “Norman Loeb studies clouds' effect on Earth's climate” (both 90 second & 8 minute versions of the EarthSky interview) AUDIO and script http://www.earthsky.org/interviewpost/earth/norman-loeb-studies-clouds-effect-on- earths-climate-low-b Global Warming FAQs by Steve Sherwood (Prof of Physical Meteorology & Atmospheric Climate Dynamics at the Climate Change Research Centre at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia) http://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/staff/profiles/sherwood/ClimateFAQ.html COSEE-West “Cloud Structure, Composition, and Feedbacks in the current climate and a warming world” February 3, 2010 & February 6, 2010 Resources Lesson Plans, Curricula & Teaching Tools How are clouds formed? (from NASA) Background: http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_cloudsForm.html Lesson plan: http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_cloudsForm_a.html Video! http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/videos/s_cloudsForm_H.html How do clouds form? Education World lesson http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp030.shtml Earth’s energy budget lesson from NOAA for high school: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/lessons/earth_energy_budget_lesson.html Climate Science Labs with Lesley and Anton VIDEO Convection: http://www.vimeo.com/8355310 Cloud in a Jar: http://www.vimeo.com/8335766 CO2 effects on Temperature: http://www.vimeo.com/8356244 NOAA Education: Weather for Kids http://www.education.noaa.gov/sweather.html Western Regional Climate Center: Educational and Travel pages http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/EDUCATIONAL.html Weather word games and Glossaries interactive online Hangman of weather vocabulary http://www.quia.com/hm/321039.html interactive online Jeopardy for 1 or 2 players of weather vocabulary http://www.quia.com/cb/216529.html weather vocabulary in English and Spanish: www.spanish-talk.co.uk/spanish-vocabulary/spanish-weather-vocabulary/ http://spanish.about.com/cs/vocabulary/a/weathervocab.htm drawings of weather and words http://labmat.com.pt/bri/wp-content/gallery/vocabulary-worksheets/the-weather- vocabulary_0.jpg Weather.com glossary www.weather.com/glossary/a.html weather & climate glossary http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/ams/glossary.html COSEE-West “Cloud Structure, Composition, and Feedbacks in the current climate and a warming world” February 3, 2010 & February 6, 2010 Resources Cloud Galleries: photos, images, etc. Cloud Gallery http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~robwood/images/index.html Satellite Image Gallery http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~robwood/satpic_gallery/satpic_gallery.html http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~robwood/images.html Photographs, images, etc. from NASA with anything to do with CloudSat http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/view/all/what/CloudSat CloudSat Art Gallery including: The Story of Clouds, Clouds and Culture, Cloud Classification http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/cloud_art More General Education Resources Search here for scripts and/or audio on science, often directly from scientists: Isla Earth Radio: www.islaearth.org EarthSky: www.earthsky.org Our Ocean World podcast: www.ouroceanworld.com/main/podcasthelp.htm EarthWatch Radio: ewradio.org (no longer produces new stories, but the archive is searchable) NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory List of links to climate and weather websites http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/usclimate/websites.html The GLOBE program “A worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists, and citizens working together to better understand, sustain, and improve Earth's environment at local, regional, and global scales.” http://www.globe.gov/ BOOKS The Discovery of Global Warming Useful book on the history of global warming by Spencer Weart Harvard University Press; Revised and Expanded Edition edition, 2008, 240 pages, ISBN-10: 067403189X (a bit of a preview provided here: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/) COSEE-West “Cloud Structure, Composition, and Feedbacks in the current climate and a warming world” February 3, 2010 & February 6, 2010 Resources Clouds 2004 Barnes and Noble Books, New York Photographs by Pekka Pariainen, text by Henry Fountain, ISBN: 0-7607-5635-X The Nature Companions Weather Watching 2006 Fog City Press consultant editor Richard Whitaker, ISBN: 1-740893-79-4 The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book: A Unique Way to Predict the Weather Accurately and Easily by Reading the Clouds (Paperback) by Louis D. Rubin Sr. Algonquin Books, 1989, 71 pages, ISBN-10: 0912697105 Peterson First Guide