Atmospheric Science

Remember that all Projects must include: Research on the theory of the science and/or engineering, a literature review, and original science research and/or engineering design.

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	Building Models	Science Articles
Balloon Experiments	You can expand on what we did first semester. Be creative. See this Sci Am article on wind generation for example.	Amy et. al. for ASR What they're doing at Stanford in bio launches
High Altitude Balloon Experiments	Balloon Experiments have been instrumental in huge discoveries like cosmic ray particles and recently the Boomerang experiment provided evidence for Dark Energy! See Patrick Costello's webpage. Can you go higher?!? (and bring back pictures to prove it)	Patrick Costello's Paper MIT High Alt Balloon Boomerang Experiment
Pressure, Temperature	To find alitude from Pressure and Temperature models see Barometer as an Altimeter Free Software to make contour maps Another one GIS mapping service	Some Background How Temperature effects Pressure data
Polution	absorption method of determining no. of particles in atmosphere
Lightning	Jacob's Ladder (design in CAD, how work, measure Volts using hall chip or other) Tesla Coil (design in CAD, how work, measurements)	Lightning (Scientific America)
Global Warming	Statistical Analysis of last 100 years Temp. compare to last 2,000 or so. Build a mini planet and very atmosphere, record Temp.	Climate Repair NPR website (lots of good articles and pod casts)
Tsunami		Tsunami (Scientific America )
Carbon Dioxide emmisions	Use CO2 detectors to measure output at different locations, different altitudes, from plants -see Dr. Dann	CO2 emmisions Climate Repair