14th March 2022 is Mars Day.
Establishing the radiation or energy budget of the Earth has been crucial to understanding climate change, but what do the radiation budgets of Mars and other planets in our solar system look like? Read about it in this article from Physics Review or this one from Science in School.
You can find the energy budget images for all the planets mentioned here.
a new resource collection for a broad range of subjects
the RMetS education team’s pick of the best weather and climate moments in his documentaries
Collaboration with Time for Geography won Highly Commended at Geographical Association conference
An article in School Science Review
Key Stage 4 – A series of downloadable lesson plans and teacher’s notes prepared on weather systems for GCSE geography. Produced by Tony Cassidy Teachers’
What is a drought? Droughts are not very easy to define. A drought is not just a lack of water for a period of time. In fact there are a whole range of types of drought including; agricultural (farming), meteorological (weather), hydrological (surface water) and socio-economic (ones which affect humans).
Air masses are parcels of air that bring distinctive weather features to the country. An air mass is a body or ‘mass’ of air in which changes in temperature and humidity within them are relatively slight. That is to say the air making up the mass is very uniform. in temperature and humidity.