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Key
Geography Links
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Pages
12-13 and 14-15 outline the characteristic features
of depressions and anticyclones over Britain. Pages
16-17 explains the use of synoptic charts and satellite
images. To link in with these sections of the pupil
book, pupils could use a number of different web
sites to track the passage of a depression across
Britain over a number of days. They could collect
a number of satellite images and, if severe weather
occurred, they could also download news reports
of the effects of the weather system from on-line
newspapers such as The Times http://www.sunday-times.co.uk
or Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Satellite images can be obtained daily four times
a day from the Met Office website http://www.meto.govt.uk
Pupils could copy and paste these images into a
DTP or word processing file and describe the changes
over a number of days. This would help pupils appreciate
how long it takes depressions, for example, to move
across the country as well as providing a practical
example of the ideas outlined in the Key Geography
for GCSE pupil book.
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The
Met Office - Hot Link!
- http://www.meto.govt.uk
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The
Met Office provides a wide range of data and services
which are shown clearly on their home page
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http://www.meto.govt.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html
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These
images are in JPEG format and occupy about 75 KBytes.
The Infrared image should be updated with the 00:00,
06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 GMT pictures at about 30
mins. past the hour and the Visible updated once
per day at about 12:30 GMT with the 12:00 GMT picture.
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BBC
Weather Centre - Hot Link! -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
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This
site is clearly set out, the home page provides
the latest satellite image from the Met Offics together
with regional forecasts. There are also feature
articles about the BBC forecast service and links
to any weather elated TV programmes.There are a
number of items of interest to teachers such as
a glossary which gives definitions of concepts/terms
used in weather studies, a map of shipping forecast
regions.
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Nottingham
University - Hot Link! -
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/meteosat/
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This
University of Nottingham site provides a collection
of These pages provide easy access to the very latest
wefax images transmitted by the Meteosat satellite.
We make every effort to ensure that our pictures
are as up-to-date as possible, they'll usually arrive
here within 5 minutes of reception, remember that
the times shown in the captions are in GMT. The
images have all been jpeg compressed to about 100Kbytes,
but are otherwise exactly as Meteosat disseminated
them - in monochrome with a resolution of 800 x
800 pixels and with landmass outlines.
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