Climate, Weather & Natural Phenomena Educational Posters, Charts, Calendars, & Books Index

Atmosphere: Weather & Climate

Poster Text: Nearly all weather events take place in the troposhere, the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth's surface. The difference between weather and climate is that weather is a snapshot of the present conditions in the atmosphere, while climate is the history of that weather over a specified time. Six elements of weather are used to record the conditions of the atmosphere. 1. Temperature 2. Humidity 3. Wind 4. Barometric Pressure 5. Cloud Cover 6. Precipitation

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Atmosphere & Weather Poster

Colorful graphics and well-researched text illustrate global atmospheric influences, meteorological motion, clouds and precipitation, severe weather, weather symbols, meteorological optics, pollution meteorology and aviation meteorology.

The Weather: Le Climat, Il Clima, El Clima, Das Klima

Storms, clouds, temperatures, climate, atmosphere, and biomes presented in 5 languages - English, French, Italian, Spanish, German.

Understanding Earth Science using Satellite Imagery, Chart

Erosion & Weathering

Wind, rain and other forces are constantly shaping and rearranging the Earth's surface. This process of change is known as erosion and weathering. Erosion is the process of removal and transportation of Earth's materials by natural forces. These forces can include rain, wind, rivers, glaciers, earthquakes, and volcanoes.

Weathering is similar to erosion except it does not include the transportation of materials. It is the process of rock breakup resulting from exposure to the atmosphere. Mechanical weathering involves the physical breakup of rock, without altering the chemical makeup of the minerals compounding it. An example of mechanical weathering is when ice expands to break apart rock. If the chemical makeup is altered, it is referred to as chemical weathering. Rust is a form of chemical weathering.

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Wild Weather Poster Series -avalanche, blizzard, drought, flood, “hail, sleet & ice”, hurricane, thunderstorm and tornado.

Cloud Posters & Charts-

Clouds are condensed vapor droplets or iced crystals suspended in the atmosphere abouve a planetary body.

The Hurricane

Tropical cyclones are called hurricanes or typhoons, depending on their locations...

Lightning, an atmospheric discharge of electricity, typically occurs during thunderstorms, though lightning sometimes occurs during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. Lighning is observed in the form of a streak or bolt in cloud to cloud and cloud to ground flashes; there is also upper-atmospheric lightning.

Rainbow Grand Canyon

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Very Unpleasant Weather, or the Old Saying verified “Raining Cats, Dogs and Pitchforks!”

The setting of Shakespeare's 1611 The Tempest, a violent storm and shipwreck, is thought to have been inspired by the destruction of a 1609 Virginia Company expedition to relieve the colony of Jamestown. The expedition flagship of Sir George Somers wrecked on the islands we now know as Bermuda.

Evangelista Torricelli
b. 10-15-1608; Italy
d. 10-25-1647
Torricelli was an Italian mathematician and physicist most noted for inventing the Barometer (1642) and for stating Torricelli's Law concerning the speed of a fluid flowing out of an opening, later shown to be a particular case of Bernoulli's principle. He succeeded Galileo as the grand-ducal mathematician and professor of mathematics in the University of Pisa.