Teaching and Learning

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Links to Useful Information

http://globe.gov/ - measurements of aerosols, temperature, etc ... are gathered around the world by primary and secondary students with the help of their teachers and put online.

http://cleanet.org/ - supplies information and activities on climate and energy for teachers and students, the activities are offered for multiple age levels which range from middle school to college.

http://www.iceeonline.org/ - also offers teaching materials centered around climate education.

http://geocommons.com/ - an interesting website where you can easily make your own maps, there are samples on the website to give you an idea of its capability.

http://phet.colorado.edu/ - a website which offers great scientific simulations (graphing, springs, friction, etc ...) 

Demonstrations & Teaching Aids

These demonstrations were designed by Prof. John Hart at the University of Colorado.  Construction of the experiments and filming of the clips on this website were carried out by Scott Kittelman and John Hart.  Some of the equipment used in the demonstrations was obtained from previously-completed  externally funded research projects.  We are grateful to the National Science Foundation, Physical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Programs, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,  Microgravity Sciences Program, for support of this effort.

Many demonstration write ups include movie clips, some of which are in two versions: a relatively short QuickTime movie with a small area on the screen, and a QuickTime "Big Screen" version that is much larger on the screen (typically 720 x 480 pixels) and takes much longer to download.  The file size for "Big Screens" is 3 - 20 Megabytes, while the regular movies are generally less than a Megabyte.  The Big Screen version is provided for possible stand-alone use by itself as a class video.

Make sure you have the latest Quick Time Movie Player.

1. "Adiabatic" Expansion

2. Atmospheric Electricity

3. Atmospheric Optics (1/r²)

4. Atmospheric Optics (Explore Orientation of Falling Ice Crystals)

5. Baroclinic Waves

6. Neutral Buoyancy

7. Buoyancy (Lava Lamp)

8. Chaos I

9. Chaos II

10. Cloud Chamber

11. Coriolos Effect (Air Hockey)

12. Coriolos Effect and Inertial Circles

13. Doppler Effects

14. Drinking Ducks

15. Ekman Layers

16. Ekman Layers (Timescales and Symmetry)

17. Expansion of Air

18. Gravity Currents

19. Hadley Cell

20. Heat Transport

21. Hydrostatics

22. Ice Crystal Orientation (While Falling)

23. Inertial Oscillations (Particle Orbits)

24. Instability of a Two-Fluid Interface

25. Motion of a Two-Fluid Interface

26. Instability of Hadley Circulations

27. Instability of Rotating Flow

28. Instability of Stratified Shear Flows

29. Internal Gravity Waves

30. IR Absorption and Emissivity

31. IR Imaging

32. Latent Heat and Boiling

33. Latent Heat, Nucleation, Supercooled Liquids

34. Momentum Conservation

35. Mountain Airflow

36. Multiple States of Systems: Spinning Cylinder

37. Ocean Circulations - Western Intensification

38. Power of Pressure

39. Rainbows

40. Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: Linear & Finite Amp.

41. Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: Wave Selection

42. Refraction

43. Rotating Annulus

44. Rotating Fluids - Flow Over Topography

45. Salt Fingers - Double Diffusive Convection

46. Saturation Vapor Pressure

47. Scattering of Light by Particles

48. Sea Breeze

49. Shock Waves

50. Spin Up

51. Sprites and Jets

52. Static Equilibria: 300 rpm spinning jar

53. Supercooled Liquids

54. Taylor-Couette Flow

55. Taylor Proudman Effect

56. Terminal Velocity

57. Thermal Convection Driven by Evaporation

58. Thermal Convection Heated from Below

59. Thermal Convection (Viscous Oil)

60. Vortex Generator

61. Vortices in a Bottle

62. Vorticity Mechanics

63. Vortex Pairs: Propogation and Interaction

64. Waves - Internal Gravity

65. Waves - Capillary-Gravity

66. Waves (Mechanics and Kinematics)

67. Waves - Nonlinear

68. Western Intensification