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North Carolina Science Olympiad Coaches Institute. Ashley Frazier and Heather Dinon State Climate Office of North Carolina. Meteorology Event: Climate and Climate Change.
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North Carolina Science OlympiadCoaches Institute Ashley Frazier and Heather Dinon State Climate Office of North Carolina
Meteorology Event: Climate and Climate Change • Participants will demonstrate a multi-disciplinary understanding of the earth and planetary systems that influence the Earth’s climate • Emphasis will be placed on understanding how these systems are impacting climate change, past and present, on our planet
Meteorology Event: Climate and Climate Change • Teams will be composed of no more than 2 participants • Each team may bring one 8.5” x 11” two-sided sheet of paper with any information from any source • Each participant may bring a non-graphing calculator, but no other resources
Meteorology Event: Climate and Climate Change • Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Composition and evolution of Earth’s atmosphere • Weather versus climate • Solar radiation and Earth’s energy balance • Climatic zones, with emphasis on how the Koppen classification can be used to understand climate change
Meteorology Event: Climate and Climate Change • Topics continued: • Natural climatic variability, with emphasis on how it might affect climate change • Oceanic and atmospheric circulations, and their impact on climate and climate change • Earth’s celestial cycles • Paleoclimate of Earth’s geologic history • Human impact on climate change
Resources • Science Olympiad Earth Science Resource CD • Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment by C. Donald Ahrens • Meteorology: The Atmosphere and the Science of Weather by Joseph M. Moran and Michael D. Morgan
Resources • http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/ • http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/home.rxml • http://www.comet.ucar.edu/ • http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/higher/climate_change.html • http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/models/carbon_cycle/ • http://www.project2061.org/publications/guides/climate.pdf
What can each team expect at the tournament? • 12 stations, with 13 “mock” stations • Each station will contain a copy of a test with various climate questions, broken down by topic • While at “mock” stations, teams will have the opportunity to work on tie-breaker questions • Teams will have approximately 2 minutes at each station before rotating to another