Exercises for Weather & Climate, 9th edition

Exercises for Weather & Climate encourages students to review important ideas and concepts of meteorology through problem solving, simulations, and guided thinking. Available for use standaloe or with Pearson’s introductory meteorology textbooks, the graphics program and computer-based simulations and tutorials help students grasp key meteorology concepts. Now with integrated links to mobile-enabled Pre-Lab Videos, and assignable Pre- and Post-Lab quizzes in MasteringMeteorology, this manual and technology program is designed to complement any introductory meteorology or weather and climate course.

Also available with MasteringMeteorology^™

MasteringMeteorology is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping students quickly master meteorology concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience to help students stay on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringMeteorology, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Exercises for Weather and Climate contains the following features to facilitate learning:

An easy-to-read format and understandable text adaptable for laboratory use

• A two-column format with perforated pages makes the manual easy to use in the laboratory.
• Learning Objectives outline each lab to help students understand what knowledge and skills they should gain.
• An accompanying Answer Key contains all solutions to the labs so students can look up the answers to their experiments right in the lab.
• Equations are placed into context with detailed explanations to help students understand why and when they are used, rather than just how.
• Illustrations and maps make the text more engaging while remaining easy to understand.

NEW! Several labs have been expanded in scope and updated with new information

• NEW! Lab 1 has a new section on variable gases.
• NEW! Lab 2 contains much-improved graphics of the Sun and Earth.
• NEW! Lab 4 has updated questions on temperature controls.
• NEW! Lab 5 includes a new section on humidity and human comfort.
• NEW! Labs 7 and 10 provide exercises based on a recent US southern winter storm.
• NEW! Lab 12 contains a new section on tornado climatology.
• NEW! Lab 13 explores the destructive Hurricane Sandy.
• NEW! Lab 17 incorporates new data from the latest IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

Also available with MasteringMeteorology^™

MasteringMeteorology is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping students quickly master meteorology concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience to help students stay on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

MasteringMeteorology contains the following features:

• Pre-Lab Videos accompany each lab and highlight what students should expect to learn. These mobile-enabled, three-minute introductions put the exercises in a broader context by reviewing fundamental concepts and identifying specific challenges to the material. Narrated by a student, they bring the perspective of someone who has completed the lab exercises.
• Quick Response (QR) codes appear in each lab, quickly linking students to online resources from mobile devices. Resources include Pre-Lab videos, as well as real-world data, graphics, and information related to the lab exercises.
• Pre-Lab and Post-Lab Quiz Questions accompany each lab. Pre-Lab Quizzes measure students’ preparation for the lab and are appropriate after viewing the relevant Pre-Lab Video and/or skimming the lab itself. Post-Lab Quizzes measure student comprehension of each lab topic. These auto gradable coaching items can be assigned by teachers for credit.

• Interactive Media Modules to accompany many of the exercises get students hands on with interactive simulations and data visualization.
• Geoscience Animations help students visualize the most challenging physical processes in the physical geosciences with schematic animations that include audio narration.
• Video Activities, from sources such as the BBC and NASA, provide students with real-world case studies of atmospheric phenomena and engaging visualizations of critical data..

• MapMaster teractive Map Activities ar

Several labs have been expanded in scope and updated with new information

• Lab 1 has a new section on variable gases.
• Lab 2 contains much-improved graphics of the Sun and Earth.
• Lab 4 has updated questions on temperature controls.
• Lab 5 includes a new section on humidity and human comfort.
• Labs 7 and 10 provide exercises based on a recent US southern winter storm.
• Lab 12 contains a new section on tornado climatology.
• Lab 13 explores the destructive Hurricane Sandy.
• Lab 17 incorporates new data from the latest IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

Also available with MasteringMeteorology^™

MasteringMeteorology is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping students quickly master meteorology concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience to help students stay on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

MasteringMeteorology contains the following features:

• Pre-Lab Videos accompany each lab and highlight what students should expect to learn. These mobile-enabled, three-minute introductions put the exercises in a broader context by reviewing fundamental concepts and identifying specific challenges to the material. Narrated by a student, they bring the perspective of someone who has completed the lab exercises.
• Quick Response (QR) codes appear in each lab, quickly linking students to online resources from mobile devices. Resources include Pre-Lab videos, as well as real-world data, graphics, and information related to the lab exercises.
• Pre-Lab and Post-Lab Quiz Questions accompany each lab. Pre-Lab Quizzes measure students’ preparation for the lab and are appropriate after viewing the relevant Pre-Lab Video and/or skimming the lab itself. Post-Lab Quizzes measure student comprehension of each lab topic. These auto gradable coaching items can be assigned by teachers for credit.

• Interactive Media Modules to accompany many of the exercises get students hands on with interactive simulations and data visualization.
• Geoscience Animations help students visualize the most challenging physical processes in the physical geosciences with schematic animations that include audio narration.
• Video Activities, from sources such as the BBC and NASA, provide students with real-world case studies of atmospheric phenomena and engaging visualizations of critical data..

• MapMaster teractive Map Activities are inspired by GIS, allowing students to layer various thematic maps to analyze spatial patterns and data at regional and global scales. This tool includes zoom and annotation functionality, with hundreds of map layers leveraging recent data from sources such as NOAA, NASA, USGS,
• United Nations, and the CIA.
• Encounter Activities provide rich, interactive Google Earth explorations of meteorology concepts to visualize and explore Earth’s physical landscape and atmospheric processes.  
• GeoTutor coaching activities help students master the toughest physical geoscience concepts with highly visual, kinesthetic activities focused on critical thinking and application of core geoscience concepts.
• Math and Chemistry Review modules help students brush up on fundamental course skills.
• Learning Catalytics™ offers meteorology specific questions for classr