Teaser

Why does it rain? Can we predict it? Give physics students a mass of weather data and some IT, and they can try working this out for themselves.

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• Thermodynamics is taught in high-school physics –
• but how many students make the connection with our everyday weather, even though both are governed by the same variables (temperature, pressure and so on)?
• We decided to try to make this connection clear to students by asking them to explore for themselves how such variables affect each other in the environment, using real scientific data.

By the end, the students were impressed by the logical way in which these natural phenomena are related – and got a thrill from working with a top scientific institution the National Observatory of Athens.