K-12 students as ground observers of contrails in support of scientific research

Author

Chambers, L.H. ; Moore, S.W. ; Fischer, J.D. ; Sepulveda, R. ; Clark, C.

Author_Institution

NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, VA

Volume

7

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

4810

Abstract

Scientists are very interested in the formation of contrails, both the type and the coverage. To be detected by a satellite-born instrument, the contrail must be of a certain size, which means that some contrails go undetected. The K-12 education community is assisting with the study of contrails by participating in a network of student observers. To provide a venue for student contrail observations, the GLOBE Contrails protocol was developed as part of the GLOBE Atmospheric Science protocols. The first year of observations has provided a rich resource for researcher

Keywords

Web sites; aerosols; clouds; education; geophysics computing; GLOBE Atmospheric Science protocols; GLOBE Contrails protocol; K-12 education community; K-12 students; contrails ground observer; satellite-born instrument; scientific research; student contrail observations; student observers network; Atmosphere; Clouds; Collaboration; Earth; Ground support; Instruments; NASA; Protocols; Satellites; Temperature control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370237

Filename

1370237