Internet Resources about Hurricanes and Teaching About Hurricanes
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Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Study Says.
This news release from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) describes a study suggesting that hurricanes are getting stronger. Users may also follow links to related sites including an ...Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
WINDS: Measuring Ocean Winds from Space
This website provides access to images and data gathered by the SeaWinds scatterometer, a microwave radar sensor designed specifically to measure ocean near-surface wind speed and direction. The site ...Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Collection, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Images/Illustrations
Estimating Hurricane-Force Winds
This resource provides an abstract: To better measure hurricane-force winds, the authors studied various types of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind retrieval schemes applied to the high winds ...Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work:AGU Highlights
Hurricane intensification may be related to eyewall precipitation
This resource provides an abstract. The authors used weather surveillance radars along the United States coast to study the frequency of tall precipitation in order to quantify the relationship ...Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work:AGU Highlights
This page provides access to a variety of resources about hurricanes. The site contains animations of past hurricanes, current hurricane predictions, tutorials on what to do when threatened by a ...
This Why Files article focuses on hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean region: what they are, how they form, how they are predicted, how scientists use Geostationary Operational ...
How Stuff Works is a site that offers in-depth articles explaining in simple terms how things work. This article provides a detailed description of how hurricanes work. This includes what a hurricane ...
This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, includes a variety of educational sites to visit, and a data exercise on hurricanes. Topics covered are: "What ...
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets
This undergraduate meteorology tutorial from Texas A&M University discusses the climatology of hurricanes (where they form, where they go, and their niche in the general circulation) as well as ...
This lesson plan introduces students to the structure of a hurricane, particularly the eye. It can be used as an introduction to a unit on hurricanes or weather phenomena. Students will view a video ...
