Activity Questions

1. What does the brightness of a cloud mean on the TV weather shows? http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/satir/IRCloud.html

   user can change cloud height & sfc. temp

   good Questions:
   What happens to the image when you lower the cloud?
   What happens to the image when you decrease the ground temperature?

   - a Java applet developed by Tom Whittaker and Steve Ackerman of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [same guys who developed AMS interactive IR wxsat image]

   Add link(s) from Ques. No. 3 &/or 4, my activity.

   
   
   

2. misc. resources re: infrared radiation:
   Cool Cosmos - http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/
   - Infrared Light Lessons
   http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/light_lessons/our_world_different_light/meteorology.html - Classroom Activities
   http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/classroom_activities/ir_activities.html

   
   
   

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