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AGENDA for February 5th
(WORKSHOP 2)
Part 1 -- Introduction to Air-Sea Interactions
Part 2 -- Dr. Martin Visbeck: "North Atlantic Oscillation and Climate
Variability"
Part 3 -- Classroom-ready activities about El Nino, La Nina, and Climate
Change
The American Meteorological Society's Education Program has created an
effective teacher-and student-training module that utilizes the "El Nino La Nina
Slide Card." [See
http://64.55.87.13/amsedu/AERA/ed_mats.html.]
For copyright reasons, this cannot be presented in an
online version. However, PROJECT ATMOSPHERE CANADA does have an electronic
version available at
http://www.smc-msc.ec.gc.ca/education/teachers_guides/toc_e.html
There are many other El Nino-La Nina Internet sites.
One of the most interesting has been created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of
California Institute of Technology, a partner of NASA. They provide a variety of
educational materials including "Visit to an Ocean Planet" CD
(view the PowerPoint overview presentation
or the HTML
version courtesy of JPL)
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