Hurricanes Lesson

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Hurricanes Lesson

• Global Precipitation Measurement
• Mission
• Developed by the GPM Education and Public
  Outreach Team
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Engage Water
Activator How is water helpful to humans? How
is water harmful to humans?
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Engage Natural Hazards

• Natural Hazards
• What are some natural hazards?

Too Much Water Too Little Water

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Engage Video

• Too Much, Too Little

http//pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/gpm-too-much-
too-little
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Explore Measuring Rainfall

• How do we measure rainfall?

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Explore Rain Gauges
How many rain gauges are out there?
http//gpm.nasa.gov/education/videos/worldwide-rai
n-gauges-animation
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Explore Hurricanes
Hurricanes
Credit NASA Earth Observatory, Super Typhoon
Utor, http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHaza
rds/view.php?id81837
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Explain August SST
Average Sea Surface Temperatures for August
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Explain SST August versus February
SST 1 - August
SST 2 - February
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Explore Dangers of Hurricanes

• What are some dangers posed by hurricanes and the
  heavy rainfall they bring?

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Explore Storm Threats

• Shepherd said that the event will bring
  significant rains and inland freshwater flooding
  which is often the deadliest threat from
  tropical systems.

http//www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/sh
epherd_bio.html
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (2012, October
26). Hurricane Sandy looks as 'Frankenstorm'
approaching U.S. East Coast. ScienceDaily.
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Explore Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina 2005
http//www.history.com/topics/hurricane-katrina/vi
deoshurricane-katrina
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Explore Tools to Study Precipitation

• What tool do Earth scientists use to gather great
  amounts of data about global precipitation?

Satellites
NASA TRMM
NASA GPM
http//pmm.nasa.gov/node/287
http//pmm.nasa.gov/
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Explain Hurricanes Beyond the Tropics
GPM Hurricanes Beyond the Tropics
http//pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/gpm-hurricane
s-beyond-tropics
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Explain Data from GPM

• How can data gathered by this mission be useful
  to those who have to decide on the actions
  citizens should take before a big storm hits?

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Explain Costliest Hurricanes
Hurricane Katrina (2005) was the costliest
hurricane to hit the U.S. 133,800,000,000!!!
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Explain Deadliest Hurricanes
Why do think the storms in the late 1800s and
early 1900s were so deadly?
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Explain Comparing Rainfall Data
Rainfall Data Image 1 Soulik
Rainfall Data Image 2 Dorian
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Evaluate Which storm is more dangerous?
Sea Surface Temperature
Storm B
Storm A
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Extend Hot Towers
Towers in the Tempest
http//gpm.nasa.gov/education/videos/towers-tempes
t
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Extend Comparing Storm Intensity

• Comparing the Hot Towers of Two Storms
• Which of these storms is likely be the most
  intense?