Simulation

Fact-Finding Team
Katabatic Winds

The mission of your group is to

Find the answers to the questions listed below.You may use books, periodical resources, the Internet or the Antarctica: 90 Degrees South video titled Winter? Summer? How Can You Tell? about the weather and seasons of the continent.
Make a presentation of your findings to the class. You may use whatever media you choose for your presentation. Think about how YOU learn best.
Make a handout of the important findings of your group to distribute to the rest of the class.Be sure to cite your sources.

Questions -- Katabatic Winds

What are the elevation extremes in Antarctica?
How do these extremes affect the movement of air?
Who was Douglas Mawsen? In 1912 what did he find concerning the movement of air in Antarctica?
What is the etymology of the word Katabatic? (hint: you might have to look under "c" instead of "k")
Why do these winds accelerate at the edges of the ice plateaus?

Resources

Elevation Extremes
http://outfo.org/almanac/world_factbook_00/fields/
elevation_extremes.html

World Fact Book Elevation Extremes
http://bartleby.com/151/a13/html

Antarctic winds vital to global sea life
http://usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscience/sun/
2001-01-30-katabatic-winds.htm

Winds
http://www.glacier.rice.edu/weather/3_antwinds.html

Katabatic Winds and Anatataic Winds
http://hpccsun.unl.edu/nebraska/stuproj/ametf99/
wenzl/katabatic.html

Other Local Winds Katabatic (diagram)
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter10/katab.html

Frozen Future The Arctic, the Antarctic and the Survival of the Planet
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?action=openPageViewer&docId=58950767

Yahooligans Reference
http://yahooligans.com/reference/dictionary/entries/05/k0020500.html

Fact-Finding Team Katabatic Winds

The mission of your group is to

Questions -- Katabatic Winds

Resources

Fact-Finding Team
Katabatic Winds