Virtually Enhanced Fluid Laboratories for Teaching Meteorology
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Author(s)
Illari, Lodovica
Marshall, John
McKenna, W. D.
Illari, Lodovica C
Marshall, John C
McKenna, William D
Date Issued
October 2017
Journal
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Citation
Illari, Lodovica et al. “Virtually Enhanced Fluid Laboratories for Teaching Meteorology.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98, 9 (September 2017): 1949–1959 © 2017 American Meteorological Society
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Abstract
The “Weather in a Tank” project offers instructors a repertoire of rotating tank experiments and a curriculum in fluid dynamics to better assist students in learning how to move between phenomena in the real world and basic principles of rotating fluid dynamics that play a central role in determining the climate of the planet. Despite the increasing use of laboratory experiments in teaching meteorology, many teachers and students do not have access to suitable apparatuses and so cannot benefit from them. This article describes a “virtually enhanced” laboratory that could be very effective in getting across a flavor of the experiments and bring them to a wider audience. In the pedagogical spirit of Weather in a Tank, the focus is on how simple underlying principles, illustrated through laboratory experiments, shape the observed structure of the large-scale atmospheric circulation.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0075.1
