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What's an isobar? Find out at the University of Illinois!

Visit Michael Ritter's site to see how isobars are drawn

Once you've learned about isobars, see current air pressure readings at the University of Illinois

This pair of diagrams shows how air flows in both high and low pressure systems

Unisys offers a color-coded isobar map. Can you find the high and low pressure areas?

Where do baseballs go farther? New York or Denver? (Hint: It has something to do with air pressure.)

Ozone (both ground level and stratospheric)

Get current images showing stratospheric ozone distribution (be sure to select PNG images)

Find historical Global Ozone GIFs at this site

Read all about the current state of stratospheric ozone at The Ozone Hole

Rhode Island's Dept. of Environmental Management provides information on ground level ozone

View the 3 day Air Quality Forecast at Rhode Island's DEM website

Investigate ozone conditions for all of New England at this EPA site.

Find out about ground level ozone (smog) at Smog City

The American Lung Association provides air quality information for cities across the US. Use the search box on the left to locate information for specific zip codes.

The City of Albuquerque has a good animation on ground level and stratospheric ozone formation

What's the difference between the greenhouse effect and global warming?

The BBC has an animation to help you understand the greenhouse effect

The ScienceMuseum also provides an explanation of the greenhouse effect

Here's one last animation of the greenhouse effect from the BBC

Find out about Global Warming at the EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) Kids Site

Here's the Climate Change Site at the EPA

The US Dept of Energy provides greenhouse gas emission information on cars and SUV's

Hurricanes!

Use this "Scavenger Hunt on Hurricanes" to learn all about these monster storms!

Hurricanes use warm water as "fuel". Check out current sea-surface water temperatures at Weather Underground.

Build your own hurricane at this Sun-sentinel site

Need a hurricane tracking map? Here's one from the National Hurricane Center

Tornadoes

Visit MSNBC to view an animation of tornado formation

USATODAY also has an animation of tornado formation. Be sure to view the safety tips which explain why overpasses are dangerous!

The BBC also has an animation on tornado formation. Check out the last slide on the Fujita scale.

This explanation of tornado formation from Prentice-Hall may be more difficult for middle-schoolers to understand.

Be sure to use the Interactive Twister creator at the Whyfiles site

The National Geographic website has interesting footage of what happens inside a tornado.

This site from NOAA provides the daily probability of tornado hits for any state(from 1980 to 1999).

USAToday provides a nice explanation of the new Enhanced Fujita Scale for tornadoes.

The National Weather Service provides monthly statistics dating back to 2004 on tornadoes

Think you know a lot about tornadoes? Test your knowledge at this site from the Discovery Channel

Wind

Where does wind come from? This site from the Danish Education Ministry helps to explain this concept.

View an animation of land and sea breezes from McDougal Littell

The Danish Education Ministry has developed this site to explain sea and and land breezes

This is Part 1 of a two part explanation of the Coriolis Effect from Wiley

This is Part 2 of a two part explanation of the Coriolis Effect from Wiley

The City University of New York has an excellent animation of global winds

Find out how wind turbines work at this site from the Department of Energy

Air Masses and Fronts

Review air masses at this interactive site from WeatherWise

This illustration from JetStream shows the source regions for all the different types of air masses.

Click here for an animation of a cold front from the University of Illinois.

Click here for an animation of a warm front from the University of Illinois.

Prentice-Hall has produced an animation of both cold and warm fronts.

Use this Jeopardy game to practice for your air mass and fronts quiz

Heat and Energy Transfer

This BBC site provides a clear explanation of conduction, convection and radiation

This CoolCosmos site from NASA may also help to explain conduction, convection and radiation

While at CoolCosmos, check out these "cool" pictures of objects giving off infrared heat

Fox Valley Technical College has a great animation of heat transfer

This quick, little activity from Harcourt School Publishers will help reinforce the concepts of conduction, convection and radiation

The Water Cycle and Humidity

Click here to see an informative animation of the water cycle presented by the EPA

Explore the 5 parts of the hydrologic cycle at this site from NASA

Use this link to see Earthguide's animation of the water cycle.

Check current conditions on this US Drought Monitor Map

Miscellaneous (but interesting) sites:

Use this Interactive Storm Maker from Scholastic to create all types of rainstorms and blizzards!

What time is it in Istanbul? Use the World Clock to find out!

Acid Rain

Step through this presentation to learn all about acid rain

Visit W.W Norton to view an acid rain tutorial

View the effects of acid rain on Acid Lake

Weather

If you're interested in Rhode Island weather, try these links:

Current US Weather Maps

The Atmosphere

Air Pressure and Air Pressure Systems

Ozone (both ground level and stratospheric)

What's the difference between the greenhouse effect and global warming?

Hurricanes!

Tornadoes

Wind

Air Masses and Fronts

Heat and Energy Transfer

The Water Cycle and Humidity

Miscellaneous (but interesting) sites:

Acid Rain

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