"Weather in a Tank" is a
National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported project where curricula materials
that combine atmospheric data and laboratory fluid experiments are being
developed for teaching meteorology, oceanography and climate at the
undergraduate level.
The project explores how basic
principles of rotating fluid dynamics that play a central role in determining
the climate of the planet are best conveyed to students, thus teaching them how
to move between phenomena in the real world, laboratory abstractions, theory
and models. The lab materials and associated curricula being developed could
have a wide impact in the teaching of science at many levels in universities
and schools, not just in meteorology, oceanography and climate.
To learn more, visit the "Weather
in a Tank" website. [Research supported by NSF grant DUE 06-18483.]
(Date of Image: March 2010)
Credit: Photo by John Marshall, MIT
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