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2: Weather and Climate

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter you should be able to

  • Describe at least three mechanisms that will cause clouds to form
  • Discuss the effects of violent weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes on people
  • Apply geographic principles of climate introduced in class to predict climate in Modelland

Thumbnail: A typhoon as seen from low Earth orbit. (Public domain; Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, of the NASA Johnson Space Center).


This page titled 2: Weather and Climate is shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by K. Allison Lenkeit-Meezan.

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