Eye To The Sky:Exploring Our Atmosphere

This innovative book gives students of diverse academic backgrounds an opportunity to explore and understand, firsthand, the underlying physical principles of our everyday atmospheric environment through the art of making and interpreting observations. This lab manual is different -- it teaches the scientific method through hands-on experiments that are easy to conduct and that rely on common, inexpensive materials. In addition it includes a variety of exercises that rely on analysis of provided weather observations. These activities foster understanding of the wide range of observations of our atmospheric environment, with an emphasis on recognizing patterns and anticipating the future state of the atmosphere. This lab manual is appropriate for Introduction to Weather and Climate courses at the undergraduate level. It is also suitable for middle and high school science classes with a geoscience focus. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Origin and Composition of the Atmosphere Chapter 2: Pressure And Temperature Chapter 3: Sunlight and the Earth s Climate Chapter 4: Weather s Invisible Chapter 5: Clouds And Precipitation Chapter 6: Wind, the General Circulation, and Storms Chapter 7: Weather Forecasting Chapter 8: Severe Thunderstorms and Hurricanes Chapter 9 Atmospheric Pollution and Global Warming Chapter 10: Sky Lights Appendix: Online Resources