"Weather in a tank": Exploiting laboratory experiments in the teaching of meteorology, oceanography, and climate

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1619-1632

  Illari, L ^a   Marshall, J ^a   Bannon, P ^b   Botella, J ^c   Clark, R ^d   Haine, T ^e   Kumar, A ^d   Lee, S ^b   Mackin, K J ^f   Mckinley, G A ^g   Morgan, M ^g   Najjar, R ^b   Sikora, T ^d   Tandon, A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Monona Grove High School   (United States)

^d MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Wisconsin Madison ^*

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT; DIRECT LINKS; GROUND FAULTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY FRAME; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; POWER OUTLET; PROJECTION DEVICES; REAL-TIME DATA; SLIP RINGS; VIDEO MONITORS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TEACHING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 76149136963     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2658.1     Document Type: Article

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