Wes C

In the Wes C activity i learned that Dewpoint is a measure of the watervapor component of air. Also, Water vapor transport depends on wind patterns. After doing this activity learning did take place. I didnt know the actual answers to whether dewpoint is a measure of watervapor or to the transport of watervapor until after this activity. Dewpoint is the temperature that a sample of air would have if it was cooled until dew (or frost) began to form on a surface immediately adjacent. http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/jhodson/idot/frost/dew.html
Precipitation is most likely to occur in Rainforests because it is more wet and dew is most found there.along the 850 mb surface
Moisture advection is horizontal transport of moisture, which plays a very important role in the development of precipitation. If little moisture is available, it is unlikely that precipitation will form.http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/af/adv/madv.rxml

Activity 1

El Nino's waters warm by 3° to 5°F, but in some places the waters can peak at more than 10°F higher than normal . http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/ElNino/ Also the name El Nino means little child in Spanish. Our experiment took a total of 20 minutes tod o. Ten minutes to warm up the dirt, water, and snow, and ten minutes to cool all three of the products. The Snow didn't ever warm up or cool down. The dirt warmed up the fastest and the most and cooled down fastest. Sand will warm and cool faster than water will according to our experiment. So land would warm faster than an ocean.