Assignment:
Notes and Guidelines:
1. Select a topic about a weather phenomenon or a weather concept to study it and present it. You can select a topic from the list provided below, or you can choose to select one on your own topic. You can send me a list of 3 topics ordered by preference and I will choose for you based on the availability of the topics.
2. Prepare a 1-page bullet points outline for the presentation.
3. Your presentation should be 12 to 15 min (max) per so that we can have few minutes for questions and answers.
4. Use visual aids, graphs, and historical statistics to make your paper and presentation stronger. I will post later the presentation evaluation guideline which I will be using to grade your presentation.
5. Make sure you explain the atmospheric conditions that cause the phenomenon to occur. Talk about how common and/or severe is the phenomenon and in which geographic zone it mostly occurs.
Suggested Topics:
Cyclone
Snow
Hurricane
Blizzard
Tornado
Drought
Dust devil
Waterspouts
Whirlwinds
Rain types
Thunderstorm
Rain and snow mix
Supercell
Clouds / Unique Clouds
Tropical storm
Ice Volcanos
Volcanic Lightning
Ice storm
Upward Lightning
Heat wave
Temperature inversion
Cold wave
Dust storm
Wildfire, firestorm
Haboob
Waves vs Tides
Hail / Hailstorm
Raining animals
Weather Front / Frontal Weather
Monsoon effect
Weather Forcast
Tsunami
Windstorms
Anticyclone
Downbrusts
Extratropical cyclone
Mesocale/seasonal winds
Arctic cyclone
Macroscale permenant winds
Coriolis effect
Sleet
Fire whirl
Ball lightning
Severe Fog
Belt of Venus
El Nino effect
Weather of Moon / Mars..etc
Flash Floods