Field and Stream: Initial Testing of a Live-Streamed, Storm-Chase Course in Meteorology

After the virtual storm-chasing experience, students also completed a project applying their newly learned skills and understanding to a case study based on a storm that we observed coupled with hypothetical social impacts. Once engaged on a storm, the instructors streamed from four or five devices...

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Published inBulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 103; no. 5; pp. 343 - 347
Main Authors Dixon, P. Grady, Durkee, Joshua D, Oglesby, Jonathan, Cahill, Olivia, Wright, Mary K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston American Meteorological Society 01.05.2022
Subjects
Clouds
Digital data
Digital imaging
Digital mapping
Distance learning
Downdraft
Educational objectives
Funnel clouds
Imagery
Management
Meteorology
Online education
Radar
Radar data
Satellite imagery
Severe thunderstorms
Shelf clouds
Social aspects
Spaceborne remote sensing
Storms
Students
Study and teaching
Teachers
Thunderstorms
Wall clouds
Weather
Wind
United States
United States > US
Nebraska
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Summary:After the virtual storm-chasing experience, students also completed a project applying their newly learned skills and understanding to a case study based on a storm that we observed coupled with hypothetical social impacts. Once engaged on a storm, the instructors streamed from four or five devices to share various visual perspectives as well as their location on mapping software and any digital data (e.g., radar, atmospheric profiles, satellite imagery, etc.) supportive of understanding the situation. Students tend to spend more time on details, be more open to differing opinions, feel more comfortable sharing their insights, and display more “ownership” of the forecast generated by the “fear of missing out” on memorable, photogenic severe thunderstorms that many students will not get the opportunity to observe after the course ends. The group observed severe thunderstorms on all five days, and they documented phenomena usually anticipated in conventional storm-chase courses, including funnel clouds, shelf clouds, wall clouds, and wind shifts caused by the rear-flank downdraft of a supercell (Fig. 2).
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0227.1