The pattern can shift back and forth irregularly every two to seven years, and each phase triggers predictable disruptions of temperature, precipitation, and winds. C for the oceanic nino index oni 3 month running mean of ersst. In forecasting folklore, students formulate a question and design an experiment to evaluate. But when the trade winds slow down, everything changes. Nutrient upwelling slows, and fish populations become much smaller along the pacific coast of south america. Adapted with permission by the national weather service from discover your world with noaa. Have students work on their own or in pairs at computers to complete the activities. Welcome to the noaa institutional repository browse. This causes a disruption of the oceanatmosphere system in the tropical pacific having important consequences for weather around the globe. Noaa climatologists closely track the development of these oscillating systems, which typically last between one to two years. Distribute the student handout before you begin for students to take notes on key information.
Climate describes the average weather conditions of a particular place over a 30 year period. Hurricane student activity book marine science mrs. Have them use different colors to represent warmer and cooler water, and arrows to represent the direction the water is moving. The discover your world with noaa activity book for teachers and students. Imagine you are a fisherman off the coast of south america.
This can be done at home or in class as a team of two students with a laptop. Our blogger takes a journey into the mind of an enso forecaster. Impacts of multiscale variability on natural ecosystems and society, edited by henry f. Both tend to develop during marchjune, reach peak intensity during decemberapril, and then weaken during mayjuly. The climate prediction center cpc creates a weekly enso summary with graphics, available in pdf or ppt formats. Lesson objectives environmental science students will.
Please complete this survey and send it to your partners we need as large a sample of nws stakeholders as possible. The activities increase in complexity and studentdirectedness. Dear stakeholders, nws is working on improving approaches for communication of the nws climate products. Twelve modules 10 printed and 2 online resources comprise the set and are. Activities recommended for grades 35 regional ocean activity books. Imagine our weather if earth were completely motionless, had a flat dry landscape and an untilted axis. Student worksheet noaa national environmental satellite. In forecasting folklore, students formulate a question and design an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of weather folklore.
Please complete this survey and send it to your partners. These documents promote environmental literacy, particularly in relation to marine resource management and marine protected areas, and increase awareness of noaas educational mission and community outreach activities. Experiment to find some of the ways that salt changes the physical properties of water. The focus of the activities is on accessing and manipulating real data to help students.
Some climates are small in scale, like the climate of a local region or the microclimates within an ecosystem, and some are much larger, such as the climates of entire continents, or the worlds oceans. During this phase of enso, the water is cooler than normal and the east winds are stronger. Download the full activity book or individual activities. The 1997 data are from the nasacnes topexposeidon mission. Pdf impact of elnino and lanina on indian climate and.
T his learning activity was developed to examine the potential impacts of climate variability and change. State of the ocean climate enso indices atmosphere surface ocean subsurface ocean sea ice from noaa ocean observations. These downloadable books include fun and informative activities about the local coastal ocean and its inhabitants. Each activity is part of an overall series entitled the potential consequences of climate variability and change,which includes 112 teacher resources. However, these impacts can be different from yeartoyear due to the varying nature of enso, and variations in the atmosphereocean system.
Every two to seven years, tradewinds in the pacific ocean slow down or reverse their direction no one is sure why. For 200 years, noaa has been focused on delivering science, service, and stewardship. The local weather that impacts our daily lives results from large global patterns in the atmosphere caused by the interactions of solar radiation, earths large. Students complete five small activities from the noaa ocean data education. Water temperatures become warmer in the eastern pacific and colder in the west. This collection contains materials produced by noaas programs and line offices intended for education and outreach purposes. Image generated at research scientists have determined that the location and strength of the sst anomalies in the tropical pacific can affect the pattern and strength of precipitation.
This collection contains materials produced by noaa s programs and line offices intended for education and outreach purposes. People have noticed that when the pacific ocean is unusually warm near the beginning of the year, certain things are more likely to happen. One copy of the student activity book for each student or group of students. Lesson plans national oceanic and atmospheric administration. Enso is a yeartoyear fluctuation of sea surface temperatures ssts, rainfall, winds, and currents over the tropical pacific ocean, which affects weather, economies, and ecosystems worldwide. The surface of the tropical pacific has been warmer than average for a few months now, but ensoneutral conditions are still in place. Record your observations and analyze your data on the following page. Teachers, ask your students to create their own story by following the 18 frames in the story board below. Making this happen leads the people of noaa from the edge of space to the bottom of the ocean. This causes a disruption of the oceanatmosphere system in the tropical pacific having important consequences for.
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