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NES: Weather and Climate:
Satellite Meteorology
Presented by: Rudo Kashiri
January 23, 2012
Weather and Climate:
Satellite Meteorology
Presented by Rudo Kashiri
NASA Explorer Schools
Session Agenda
1.
Weather and climate
basics
2.
Satellite Meteorology
Overview
3.
NASA Connection
4.
Sample Module
5.
NASA Explorer
Schools
About the Product
1. Using NASA Satellite for Grades 7-12
2. Correlates to National Science and Math
Standards:
- Energy in the Earth System
- Data Analysis and Probability
3. Time for each module: 20-30 min.
- Problem Based Learning: One to two 45-min. class periods
4. Individual or paired activity
5. Materials
6. Basic knowledge of the layout of the country
Weather and Climate
What is the difference
between weather and
climate?
How Do Scientists Collect
Evidence About Climate?
A. Using remote sensing from space with
satellites
B. By ground-based measurements of
surface temperature, carbon dioxide
concentration, and sea level
C. By collecting “proxy data” from tree
rings, ice cores, and historical records
D. All the above
2012
OSTM/Jason 2
Jason
Aquarius
Landsat-7
Aqua
SORCE
Terra
GRACE
TRMM
NPP
CALIPSO
CloudSat
Aura
NPPNPOESS Preparatory
Project
Orbits Earth and
helps us study
weather and
climate
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental
Satellite System (NPOESS)
The CERES Experiment
Question:
What is the Effect of
Clouds on the
Earth’s Climate?
Satellite View of Clouds
What the Students
Observe
Mountains with snow & ice
http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/register/
SCOOL CERES Project
http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/index.php
Poll Audience
Have you used data from
NASA satellites with your
students?
√
Yes
X
No
Let’s Pause for
Questions.
NASA Connection
http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov
An overview of
meteorological
satellites
The GOES POES Program
Geostationary
Polar
Operational
Operational
Environmental
Environmental
Satellites
Satellites
Geostationary
Orbit
Polar Orbit
Poll Audience
Use the characteristics for GOES and POES below
to determine the satellite used to monitor ice bergs.
A. Geostationary
• Image resolution is not
very good because of
distance from earth
• Can not see the poles
very well
• Can view only one
hemisphere
B. Polar
• Image resolution is good
because it’s closer to earth
• Sees the poles about 14
times a day
• Sees tropical and middle
latitude regions twice a
day
Let’s Pause for
Questions.
Satellite Meteorology
Featured Lesson: Monitoring
the Global Environment
Students will be able to interpret data
from environmental satellites and draw
conclusions from those data.
Part 1: Investigating climate change
Part 2: Problem-Based Learning
Biomass burning and global climate
change
Monitoring the Global
Environment
Global Montage
Monitoring the Global
Environment
• GOES spots forest fires and monitors biomass
burning
• Satellite Sounders detect trace gases in the
atmosphere
• Biomass burning and global climate change
• POES monitors the pulse of the planet (The
EOS program)
• Satellite images from the MODIS radiometer
Urban Heat Islands
Remote Sensing Using Weather Satellites
• Introduce students to urban heat
Islands
• Identify urban areas in Northeast
United States
The highest temperatures are found
in the most dense part of a city.
That’s the urban heat island effect.
Reasons for patterns
Assessment Questions
If POES flies so much closer to the Earth
than GOES, why bother using
instruments on GOES to monitor things
like forest fires or biomass burning?
Problem-Based Learning
Global Climate Change
• Analyze the cause-and-effect
relationships of a warming climate
• Discuss use of satellite technology to
study climate change
• Create a presentation of policy
recommendations for the Governor
Teacher's Guide
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satmet/home/teachsatmet.html
Let’s Pause for
Questions.
Poll Audience
I will be interested in using GOES and POES
satellites data with my students.
YES
NO
Not
sure yet
Satellite Observations in
Education
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/
More Resources
• Global Climate Change
http://climate.nasa.gov
• Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/World
OfChange
• My NASA Data also has lessons on
meteorology
http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/
Collaboration
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov
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