Climate research (real)

 1. Tornadoes can happen anywhere on earth as long as the conditions are met. The weather that effects tornado alley is from the cool, dry air from canada mixing with the Warm, moist air from the Gulf.1

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2. Tornadoes happen when two different fronts mix making a thunderstorm the cool air lowers and the warm air rises making a funnel cloud that may make a tornado.1

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3. Tornadoes can cause damage anywhere from the breaking of windows to complete and utter destruction of buildings and cities. Tornadoes wind speeds can reach from 40-318 MPH. 2

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4. Tornadoes are some of the most deadly economic natural disasters there is. They can destroy everything, even human life, tornadoes can destroy homes to businusses to the people in those buildings. Like the employees to the parents or children. They can cause crop damage destroying a season or destory a city or towns Morale. 2

 

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5. Warnings are issued from the national weather service on your local telivision station. Your local community will have sirens that will go off if a functioncloud or a tornado has been spoted. Tornado signals can go off within minutes. 4

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6. The technology used is mostly doplar radar. On the doplar radar is the Tornado vortex signature or TVS is a tornadoes signature on a doplar radar using the radial velocity fields. 4

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http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01424/where_do_tornadoes_occur.htm 1

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tornado/tor_damage.html  2

http://www.columbiatribune.com/photos/galleries/2011/may/23/joplin-tornado-damage/flash/ 3

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtwistqa.htm 4

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tornado_Alley_Diagram_fr.svg?uselang=fr?uselang=fr 5

http://skydiary.com/kids/tornadoes.html 6

http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.htm 7

Climate Research

Tornadoes can happen anywhere there is two different fronts converging. Mainly in tornado alley with the warm moist weather air in the gulf and the cool dry air coming from Canada.

Tornadoes happen because two different weather fronts collide and the warm air rises and mixes with cool falling air in a thunderstorm to make a funnel cloud that may turn into a tornado.

A tornado is one of the most dangerous natural disasters that can happen. They can move up to 300 Miles per hour.

Tornados can destroy cities neighborhoods or take human life. The most damage and costliest Tornado was Joplin MZ it cost 2,800,000,000 Dollars.

Great Lakes in the Regional Context

1. the biggest is lake superior and the smallest is lake Erie.

2. the most urban is lake Michigan the most rural is lake Superior.

3. the lake with the longest shoreline is lake Huron.

4. We can best manage the ecosystem by using less water for human activities.

5. two pollutants in our action project are Gasoline and Coal used in cars as energy.

6. The water goes into our septic tank. Runoff water is excess water that runs downhill our into the ground. Runoff water doesn't go to the same place as sewer water. It should't go to the same place. Because the water will pollute each other. Point pollution is direct affecting. Non point is travelling to a water system from a alternate source. A watershed is a water ecosystem that is protect by humans.

Conclusion for River Lab

I learned that there are a lot of variables that come into play in a river ecosystem. Our q-value for the river temperature was 13.02 and our final q-value was 9.30. I did not expect this and I didn't know what a q-value was. Our action project is on windpower and alternative energy. If we use wind power more it might cut carbon emissions and help  the plants and animals in the ecosystem.