it differs from other drawings. There are also terms and ideas that teachers may need to explain. In addition, the lesson leads students to consider what would happen if ocean currents slowed or stopp ...

some useful visuals for a unit on global ocean currents. There is a very nice research project in the teaching tips section asking students to research a coastal city to determine how ocean currents d ...

help elaborate upon the subject, by asking the students to make inferences about Jupiter's atmosphere. The student handout "My Trip to Jupiter Journal" can be used with this and related lessons on Jup ...

million square kilometers) on September 13, 2017. It was the eighth-lowest Arctic minimum extent in the 38-year satellite record. This animation tracks Arctic sea ice seasonal melt from about the time ...

snow-blanketed and bare ice, blue lakes collect melt water from the ice and snow. The drop in albedo in 2012 was closely tied to the widespread melt that occurred on the Greenland Ice Sheet, as the ar ...

5 trillion. During 2017, the U. S. experienced a historic year of weather and climate disasters. In total, the U. S. was impacted by 16 separate billion-dollar disaster events including: three tropica ...

Midwest cold snap was an outlier (see table below) with respect to what was going on worldwide. In January 2019, a collective 138 warm records were set in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, compar ...

of the 90-day melt season, melt area exceeded the 1981-2010 average. Year-to-year differences in the amount of surface melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet are affected by atmospheric circulation and cl ...

effort to provide trustworthy information on how, where, and to what extent the land, oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets are changing. ...

from El Niño and have slightly tilted the outlook (particularly the precipitation outlook) in that direction. And if El Niño remains a no-show this year, what will this mean for the forecast? Actually ...