Additional Activities
- Set up a simulated radar in a darkened classroom. Use a flashlight to
represent the radar beam and hang (from the ceiling) mobiles of smooth
and crumpled pieces of aluminum foil to depict areas of rain or snow.
Swing the flashlight beam around or up and down to search for
precipitation areas. Devise a coordinate system to determine the
direction and distance to the "echo" sources.
- Obtain a tuning fork with a hole in the handle. Attach a length of
string so that the vibrating tuning fork can be swung carefully around
the head. Strike the fork to make a tone, then swing the tuning fork
overhead. The Doppler Effect is evident as a raising and lowering of the
pitch as the tuning fork moves toward and away from the listeners,
respectively.
- NJNIE Project: Weather
or Not: Here I Come -- Students use realtime radar images to identify
major storms.
Additional InSites
- WSI Intellicast Mid-Atlantic Regional
Radar (including six-hour animation). Regional map centered on
Washington, DC shows PA, MD, VA, NC, OH, WV, KY, TN (as well as other
smaller states)
- WeatherNet
Radar/Satellite
- UIUC Weather Visualizer Radar
Images
- The Weather World 2010 Project Radar
Meteorology Online Remote Sensing Guide
- Radar and
Mesoscale Meteorology (METR 475) - 12 HTML-based exercises
- USA TODAY
Weather - Not everything on radar picture is rain (ground clutter)
- USA TODAY
Weather - Doppler radar becoming a key forecasting tool
- USA TODAY Weather
- Precipitation definitions
- USA TODAY
Weather - The difference between drizzle and rain (official definitions
of liquid precipitation)
- Dan's Wild Wild
Weather Page - RADAR
- How to
read a local Doppler radar map; How to interpret the color key;
Evaporation and "ground clutter"; About NEXRAD Doppler radar
- How to
read U.S. Doppler radar maps; How to interpret the color key; About
the time key; About NEXRAD Doppler Radar
- Washington
DC/Baltimore, MD Local Doppler Radar, courtesy The Weather Channel,
Inc.
- An Overview of
NEXRAD Products (UCAR)
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