 |
"Rain and hail
are liquid and ice precipitation. Rain develops when growing cloud droplets become too heavy to remain in the cloud and as a result, fall toward the surface as rain. Rain can also begin as ice crystals that collect each other to form large snowflakes. As the falling snow passes through the freezing level into warmer air, the flakes melt and collapse into rain drops. Hail is a large frozen raindrop produced by intense thunderstorms, where snow and rain can coexist in the central updraft. As the snowflakes fall, liquid water freezes onto them forming ice pellets that will continue to grow as more and more droplets are accumulated. Upon reaching the bottom of the cloud, some of the ice pellets are carried by the updraft back up to the top of the storm" (source from Department of Atmospheric Sciences, WW2010 University of Illinois) |
 |
1.
How do the lakes affect precipitation?
2. How does the amount of precipitation change as people get farther from the lakes? 3. Where does the highest precipitation occur in relation to the Great Lakes? |
 |
LAKERS (Lake-Aware
Kids Engaged in Relevant Science
EP-079 The Great Lake Erie EP-083 Earth Systems - Education Activities for Great Lakes Schools (ES-EAGLS): Climate and Water Movement |
 |
1. The Great Lake Erie
2. Earth Systems - Education Activities for Great Lakes Schools (ES-EAGLS) Climate and Water Movement 3. Precipitation Along Fronts: scaffolding activity teacher's guide (by University of Illinois) http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/tg/fpr.rxml 4. Teacher Guide to Experiment #2: Create a Cloud (by NASA's IITA Program & University of Washington) http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/modules/ nw_wx_watch/tchrpg_ex2.html |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
1.NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/rsch/ahps/curfcst/ 2. Great Lakes Net Basin Supply Forecast Model http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/guides/mtr/fw/land/cls.rxml |
