AOS 100/101 Cloud Project

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AOS 100/101 Cloud Project
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Tweet Pictures of Weather Phenomena
Tweet _at_uwaos100_2014 with a link to a picture
that you took! Upload through Twitter,
Instagram, etc.
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Example Tweet

• Use a hashtag to identify your tweet
• First two letters of first name
• First three letters of last name

GrTri
Greg Tripoli
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Example Tweet
Greg Tripoli _at_uwaos100_2014 Stratus clouds not
quite reaching the horizon produced a vivid
sunset on the west side tonight! GrTri
pic.twitter.com/Ao5ruL3s
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Example Tweet
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Cloud Project

• The Rules
• Tweet 12 pictures with short explanation
• Must be UNIQUE pictures
• At least 3 pictures per month
• Extra pictures will be counted towards extra
  credit (max. 1 per month)
• One picture of optical phenomena per month can
  also be taken for extra credit
• Put three of your pictures into cloud scrapbook
  (due at end of the semester)

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Academic Misconduct

• Caution If we find any picture sharing or
  fraudulent pictures
• You will receive -15 for the project
• Maximum course grade of 70

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Example Scrapbook Entry

1. Date and Time Friday, October 21, 2011 at 3 pm
2. Original Tweet and Picture _at_uwaos100_2014 Cirrus
   clouds at Picnic Point. A warm front is moving
   in. GrTri
3. Location and circumstance This picture was taken
   while walking along the path on Picnic Point in
   Madison.
4. Direction The camera was pointing northeast and
   at the horizon
5. Description Mares tail cirrus. These are thin
   fibrous clouds composed entirely of ice which
   have a distinctive hooked appearance resulting
   from wind shear across the falling ice particles.
   
6. Estimated Height or Temperature The cloud is
   estimated to be at approximately 30000 ft above
   the ground.
7. Weather Situation and Web Weather Map These
   clouds were formed on the northeast side of a
   warm front that stretched from the Minneapolis,
   Minnesota area southeastward to Dubuque, Iowa
   (see figure xx).
8. Theory on How It Was Formed These clouds were
   likely formed by the rising currents of air over
   the top of the warm front .

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Point Structure

• Total Project is worth 15 of overall grade
• 12 Tweets are worth 7.5
• Cloud Scrapbook 7.5

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Questions?
Stephen Ogden sogden_at_wisc.edu _at_uwaos100_2014
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Useful Links
Surface weather maps going back to 1996
http//weather.unisys.com/archive/index.php Guide
to optical phenomena http//www.atoptics.co.uk/
(no, blue skies won't count for extra
credit) Guide to cloud types http//www.crh.noaa
.gov/lmk/?ncloud_classification