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Project
Competition: Categories |
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Includes
projects concerning agricultural sciences, botany, zoology, or
entomology. Examples include growing degree days, animal behavior,
insect behavior, or vegetation growth patterns. |
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Includes
projects concerning human behavior, such as how weather affects
human behavior. |
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Includes
projects concerning climate patterns. Examples include comparing
data to climatological "normal" or exploring major
meteorological features such as El Niño. |
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Includes
projects concerning forecasts, both long-term (>10 days)
and short-term (<10 days). Examples include validation of forecasts
and testing forecasting methods. |
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Includes
projects concerning precipitation, clouds, dew point, and relative
humidity. Examples include predicting cloud cover, or examining
the behavior of water, smog, fog, and frost. |
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Includes
projects concerning soil temperature. Examples include effects
of the atmosphere on soil temperatures, comparison of air and
soil temperatures, and heat retention by soil. |
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Includes
projects concerning solar heating, solar energy, and solar radiation.
Examples include solar radiation vs. temperature, or how much
solar energy is needed to melt snow or lift a balloon. |
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Standard
Weather Parameters |
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Includes
projects concerning pressure, temperature, and wind. Examples
include how temperature affects pressure, predicting the wind,
or building your own thermometer, barometer, or anemometer. |
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Includes
projects concerning technology and/or economical factors involving
science. Examples include computers, architecture, photography,
instrumentation, airplanes, home insulation, and heat loss. |
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Includes
projects concerning specific meteorological features, such
as cold fronts, air masses, tornadoes, or thunderstorms. |
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