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“Students gaze into the eye of the hurricane, feel the fury of a tornado, hear the pounding of torrential rain, and watch flood waters destroy everything in its path!”This highly motivating program helps students develop scientific investigation, data analysis, and theory building skills that are the framework of the weather sciences.
Interactive exercises and open-ended, hands-on projects provide insight into weather fundamentals, forecasting, climate, and tornadoes and storms. Students are introduced to weather satellites and remote sensing technologies, the hydrologic cycle, global weather forces and El Nino.
The impact of weather on historical events and on our everyday lives provides real-world context. Features Quicktime movies of rampaging storms and satellite images, excellent computer animations, hundreds of color photographs, graphics, maps and charts, and appendices.
A great overview of basic and advanced meteorological concepts.
Minimum requirements: Mac: System 7.1, PowerMac, CD-ROM drive. Win: 3.1/95/98 or NT, 486 or Pentium, CD-ROM drive.
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