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Also, does anybody know any good resources regarding the climate portion of the event, besides the SciOly page?

geniusjohn5 wrote:Also, does anybody know any good resources regarding the climate portion of the event, besides the SciOly page?

I happen to have a copy of Tarbuck out of the library so that is what I'm using, but yeah, basically any climate textbook will teach you climate. I feel like there have got to be a lot of decent quality sources of information on how climate works.

knottingpurple wrote:

geniusjohn5 wrote:Also, does anybody know any good resources regarding the climate portion of the event, besides the SciOly page?

I happen to have a copy of Tarbuck out of the library so that is what I'm using, but yeah, basically any climate textbook will teach you climate. I feel like there have got to be a lot of decent quality sources of information on how climate works.

I tried finding the book but it's not readily available for me. Are there any online resources for climate besides the SciOly page?

geniusjohn5 wrote:

knottingpurple wrote:

geniusjohn5 wrote:Also, does anybody know any good resources regarding the climate portion of the event, besides the SciOly page?

I happen to have a copy of Tarbuck out of the library so that is what I'm using, but yeah, basically any climate textbook will teach you climate. I feel like there have got to be a lot of decent quality sources of information on how climate works.

I tried finding the book but it's not readily available for me. Are there any online resources for climate besides the SciOly page?

Actually yeah update, in the edition of Tarbuck I was reading there's a paragraph that's printed twice so I am now full of scorn for Tarbuck, I would recommend doing a Google search for "textbook climate pdf" - there are plenty of options that come up, and when I did that, one of the options was a PDF titled "Atmosphere Weather and Climate 8th ed" which seems logical based on the table of contents, but I'm sure there are plenty of other options and unless somebody else has a specific recommendation, I would say just try a few, looking over the tables of contents and reading a couple chapters, in order to determine which are the best quality, sorry I'm not more helpful.

I haven't really bothered to read through the thread, so idk if this has been mentioned. https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ lets you look at images categorized by sensors.

Do we have to calculate the angle of refraction or any stuff like that?

geniusjohn5 wrote:Do we have to calculate the angle of refraction or any stuff like that?

Sometimes you get a super optics-oriented test, other times you get a test with no optics at all, so I guess being able to calculate basic optics stuff in general is good just in case but I don't really remember having to do angle of refraction specifically on any test.

knottingpurple wrote:

geniusjohn5 wrote:Do we have to calculate the angle of refraction or any stuff like that?

Sometimes you get a super optics-oriented test, other times you get a test with no optics at all, so I guess being able to calculate basic optics stuff in general is good just in case but I don't really remember having to do angle of refraction specifically on any test.

Thanks for the answer knottingpurple, really appreciate how you responded so quickly. I have another question(how many question did I already ask? lol). Do you have any online resources that would help with Image Interpretation and explaining things? My weakness is the free-response/short answer section. Thanks for all the help!

knottingpurple and I generally hover over this thread twenty times a day.

To answer your question, we found a database of instruments aboard pretty much every single Earth Observing satellite ever, although I don't really remember where it is. Honestly, Google Images is your friend, along with practice test. There will be some images that will be really easy to identify, such as tornado tracks, wildfires and burn marks, floods, human activity, glacial retreat, but others that are much, much more subtle. The only way to go is to get yourself used to pretty much any kind of image that might show up. Get yourself a textbook too - I recommend the Lillesand Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation because it has some nice color plates in the middle, but there are more textbooks out there for Remsen that also have nice pictures, I'm sure.

whythelongface wrote:knottingpurple and I generally hover over this thread twenty times a day.

To answer your question, we found a database of instruments aboard pretty much every single Earth Observing satellite ever, although I don't really remember where it is. Honestly, Google Images is your friend, along with practice test. There will be some images that will be really easy to identify, such as tornado tracks, wildfires and burn marks, floods, human activity, glacial retreat, but others that are much, much more subtle. The only way to go is to get yourself used to pretty much any kind of image that might show up. Get yourself a textbook too - I recommend the Lillesand Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation because it has some nice color plates in the middle, but there are more textbooks out there for Remsen that also have nice pictures, I'm sure.

Do you think the online versions (I've only found up to the 5th edition online) are useful? I know that there are newer ones, but they seem expensive.