Course Content
Atmosphere: Modeling the Climate

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

ACE On-Line Young Person's Guide: Global Climate Change
Atmosphere, Climate, and Environment (ACE) Information Program, Atmospheric Resource Information Center, Manchester Metropolitan University

Contour Analysis
Sanjay Limaye and Rosalyn Pertzborn, University of Wisconsin

Earth Monitoring System
University of North Carolina

Principles of Global Dynamics
José Rial, Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Satellite Images
Sanjay Limaye and Rosalyn Pertzborn, University of Wisconsin-Madison

IMAGE BANKS, VIDEOS, AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

Biosphere 3D
Julia K. Johnson and Stephen Reynolds, Arizona State University

Interpreting Earth Data: Virtual RealityTour of the East Pacific Rise
Charles Weiland and William Prothero, UC Santa Barbara

Land Use and Land Cover: Using Geographic Information Systems to Develop a Sense of Place
Ed Brogie et al., GIS and Environmental Science TORCH (Teacher Outreach) Program, University of the Pacific

Measuring Rainfall from Space
Educational Resources, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, NASA

NewsOne Video
ABC News

What Is a Geographic Information System?
Dick Filson, GIS and Environmental Science TORCH Program, University of the Pacific

EXERCISES AND LABS

2002 GLOBE Teacher's Guide: GPS Investigation
The GLOBE Program

The Earth System
James D. Hays et al., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Geography from Space
NASA Spacelink

Global-Change Labs: Modeling the Earth (Exercises #6, #9)
David Hodell and Ray C. Thomas, University of Florida

River Drainage: Image Processing Lab
Bill Menke et al., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Storms, Weather Maps, and Forecasts
Susan Clark Slaymaker, California State University, Sacramento

Time and Change: Using Radioactive Decay to Determine Geologic Age
The Learning Web, United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Tools of the Atmospheric Scientist
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Education and Outreach Program

Weather for Pilots: Weather Maps
Steve Ackerman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

RESEARCH & POLICY

Building the Digital Earth
Department of Geological Sciences and Institute for the Study of the Continents, Cornell University

Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

GIS Methodologies for Developing Conservation Strategies
Basil G. Savitsky and Thomas E. Lacher, Jr., eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)

Introduction to Geophysical Exploration: Gravity
Thomas M. Boyd, Colorado School of Mines

Meteorologists Say Perfect Storm Not Quite So Perfect
Online Journal Publishing Service, American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society

Montana Natural Resource Information System
Montana State Library

National Geologic Map Database
USGS

Ocean Surface Topography from Space
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Prediction in the Earth Sciences: Use and Misuse in Policy Making
Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes

Prediction in Policy: A Process, Not a Product (Executive Summary)
Daniel Sarewitz and Radford Byerly, Jr., University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA