University of Reading - Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather
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Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather
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Duration | 3 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,205 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Go to Website  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather
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- Duration 3 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
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Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather at FutureLearn Course details
Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather
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- Weather affects our lives almost every day through what we wear, what we eat and what we do. But why is it rainy, windy or sometimes even sunny? Explore some of the physical processes driving UK weather systems and get hands on in the world of weather with practical activities and fieldwork. Try your hand at forecasting and have a go at interpreting weather maps and compare your results with our educator, Dr Sylvia Knight's. You'll also watch our educators carrying out simple but effective experiments including creating clouds, simulating hot air rising and demonstrating the Coriolis effect.
Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather at FutureLearn Curriculum
Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather
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Low pressure systems
Welcome to the course
Depressions
Depressions: part 2
Case studies
Review and Reflect
High pressure, rain and air masses
Welcome to Week 2
Jets, conveyors and faster cold fronts
Air masses
Types of rain
Anticyclones
Fieldwork
Review and Reflect
Global controls on weather and weather around the world
Welcome to Week 3
The Earth's energy budget
Global atmospheric circulation
Tropical weather systems: El Niño, monsoons and tropical cyclones
Other weather systems
Review and Reflect
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