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Schools of the Pacific rainfall climate experimentThe SPaRCE program is a cooperative rainfall climate field project involving high school and college level students and teachers from various Pacific island and atoll nations. The goals of the SPaRCE program are: (1) to foster interest and increase understanding among Pacific-area students and teachers of climate and climate change; (2) to educate the students and teachers as to the importance of rainfall in the Pacific area to climate studies; (3) to provide the students and teachers an opportunity of making a major contribution to the global climate research effort by collecting and analyzing Pacific rainfall data; and (4) to incorporate collected rainfall observations into a comprehensive Pacific daily rainfall data base to be used for climate research purposes. Schools participating in SPaRCE have received standard raingauges with which to measure rainfall at their sites. Students learned to site and use their raingauges by viewing a video produced at the University of Oklahoma. Four more videos will be produced which will include information on Earth's atmosphere, global climate and climate change, regional climate and implications of climate change, and how to analyze and use the rainfall data they are collecting. The videos are accompanied by workbooks which summarize the main points of each video, and contain concrete learning activities to help the student better understand climate and climate change. Following each video, interactive sessions are held with the students using the PEACESAT (Pan-Pacific Education And Communication Experiments by Satellite) satellite radio communication system.
Document ID
19940016226
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Postawko, S. E.
(Oklahoma Univ. Norman, OK, United States)
Morrissey, M. L.
(Oklahoma Univ. Norman, OK, United States)
Taylor, G. J.
(Oklahoma Univ. Norman, OK, United States)
Mouginis-Mark, P.
(Hawaii Univ. Honolulu., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: N-Z
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
94N20699
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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