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Notes & Handouts

These presentations are designed around a different textbook - not the GEO textbook. Any references to the textbook will not apply.

Video clips

Relief Rainfall in New Zealand

Frontal/Cyclonic Rainfall in Europe

Convectional Rainfall in Costa Rica

Experiment showing how high and low pressure affect how clouds form

Weather fronts explained

Occluded fronts

Air masses explained

Understanding the weather forecast

What is the jet stream?

RTE Eco Eye episode January 2014: 'Climate Change - What's happening with our weather?'

BBC Hot Planet - climate change & global warming - full documentary

BBC The Truth about Climate Change - with David Attenborough

Part 1

Part 2

Skip to 18:35 to see what happens when an entire sea evaporates!

BBC Earth: The Power of the Planet - 2. Atmosphere - full documentary

Click for link to this documentary

Skip to 41:00 to see how methane trapped in the ice in the Antarctic could speed up global warming

BBC Earth: The Power of the Planet - 3. Oceans - full documentary

Skip to 32:58 to see how a lost shipment of rubber ducks show ocean currents!!

Trophic Cascades: 

How whales change the climate

The Water Cycle animation - NASA

The Coriolis Effect explained

Animations links click to view

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