Fact-Finding Team
Katabatic Winds
The mission of your group is to
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Find the answers to the questions listed below. You
may use books, periodical resources, the Internet or
the Antarctica:
90 Degrees South video titled Winter? Summer?
How Can You Tell? about the weather and seasons of
the continent.
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Make a presentation of your findings to the class. You
may use whatever media you choose for your presentation.
Think about how YOU learn best.
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Make a handout of the important findings of your group
to distribute to the rest of the class. Be sure to cite
your sources.
Questions — Katabatic Winds
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What are the elevation extremes in Antarctica?
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How do these extremes affect the movement of air?
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Who was Douglas Mawsen? In 1912 what did he find concerning
the movement of air in Antarctica?
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What is the etymology of the
word Katabatic? (hint: you might have to look under “c” instead
of “k”)
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Why do these winds accelerate at the edges of the ice
plateaus?
Resources
Antarctic winds vital to global sea life
http://usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscience/sun/
2001-01-30-katabatic-winds.htm
Katabatic Winds and Anatataic Winds
http://hpccsun.unl.edu/nebraska/stuproj/ametf99/wenzl/katabatic.html
Other Local Winds Katabatic (diagram)
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter10/katab.html
Frozen Future The Arctic, the Antarctic and the Survival
of the Planet
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?action=openPageViewer&docId=58950767
Yahooligans Reference
http://yahooligans.com/reference/dictionary/entries/05/k0020500.html
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