| Coastal Weather and Sea Breezes: A Rising Tide Project for Grades 9-12
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This activity should take approximately 90 minutes to complete.
Students should be familiar with coastal weather patterns, weather cells, and graphing. 1. If you want to do a whole unit on Ocean-Atmosphere interactions including Hurricanes, click here: Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction to download a power point presentation 2. If you want only the information about Thermal Circulation Cells, download here: Coastal Breezes 3. You can download all the data for the activity here alldata.xls, or the data can be downloaded separately from the activities page. 4. Each student will need a copy of all three pages of: 5. All the data in this activity comes from three weather stations, Myrtle Beach State Park located right on the coast, Lakewood Elementary located about 3 km from the ocean and Socastee High located about 9 km from the ocean. The students should familiarize themselves with these locations. Oceans Effect on Temperature 6. First have the students plot the data from September, then from November. They should plot the data each hour and put all the stations on the same plot. Copy of completed June and November graphs are in the solution set below. Sea Breezes 7. Distribute the wind direction blank plot and wind rose figures. Have the students plot the wind direction and complete two wind roses using the directions on the activities page. Copy of completed wind plot and wind roses are in the solution set below. 8. Student may work in-class or at home on the Review Questions and assignments section. |