Surface Meteorological Observation System (SMOS)
http://avc.comm.nsdlib.org/cgi-bin/wiki_grade_interface.pl?Surface_Meteorological_Observation_System

Tim McCollum, Argonne National Laboratory, Charleston Middle School


These middle/junior high school activities require students to find and graph factors such as wind chill and relative humidity for up to a month, drawing from datasets available on the Internet or from local sources. Students then hypothesize relationships between pairs of factors, and test their ideas using data from a site in Oklahoma with a Surface Meteorological Observation System (SMOS). The activities are part of the Atmospheric Visualization Collection (AVC), which focuses on data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program's Southern Great Plains (SGP) Cloud and Radiation Testbed site.

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Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets
Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Atmospheric ScienceKeywords: temperature, heat index, air pressure, wind direction, wind speed, measured precipitation, cloud cover