Coriolis & Prevailing Winds, E in atmosphere Labs - HMWK

Today we had a lab involving solar energy reaching the Earth (and other planets) and hopefully in your post-lab work (homework - not much class time will be available to complete them tomorrow) you will get an appreciation of how light intensity relates to distance from a light source, and how the angle of that light relates to intensity as it is spread over a greater or smaller area.
We will spend a brief bit in class tomorrow relating lines of latitude to the angles you measured and worked with during today's lab.
Labs tomorrow and Monday: Phase changes and energy - Latent heat, manipulations of pressure,state
Tuesday and Wednesday we practiced using the Coriolis effect to predict winds on pressure maps, finished a video outlining general principles of Meteorology, and discussed how fronts cause rain, how convection at the Earth's equator sets up global convection currents and the Coriolis effect acting on these works to produce prevailing winds - trade winds, westerlies, and polar easterlies.
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