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Hurricane Tracking Lab Assignment

This document provides instructions for a hurricane tracking lab involving the following steps: 1) Defining key vocabulary terms related to hurricanes like planetary winds, air masses, air pressure, and millibars 2) Plotting the path of two hurricanes - Hurricane Katrina and another - using data on latitude, longitude, date, air pressure and wind speed 3) Analyzing graphs of air pressure and wind speed over time for Hurricane Katrina and answering questions about relationships between variables and hurricane behavior

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Hurricane Tracking Lab Assignment

This document provides instructions for a hurricane tracking lab involving the following steps: 1) Defining key vocabulary terms related to hurricanes like planetary winds, air masses, air pressure, and millibars 2) Plotting the path of two hurricanes - Hurricane Katrina and another - using data on latitude, longitude, date, air pressure and wind speed 3) Analyzing graphs of air pressure and wind speed over time for Hurricane Katrina and answering questions about relationships between variables and hurricane behavior

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  • Introduction
  • Plotting Hurricane Path
  • Graphing Air Pressure and Wind Speed
  • Analysis Questions
  • Conclusion Questions

Name ______________________________ Period: _____________ Date:

______________
______________________________

Hurricane Tracking LAB


Materials needed:
Lab Handout
Hurricane tracking maps (2)
Hurricane data (2)

Procedure:
Part 1 : Define the vocabulary

Planetary Wind:

Air Mass:

Air Pressure:

Millibars:

High Pressure:

Low Pressure:
Part 2: Plotting hurricane path

1.) Using a pencil, plot the position of Hurricane Katrina by latitude and longitude
from day to day on the Atlantic Basin Hurricane Tracking Chart at the back of
this LAB. Label it Hurricane Katrina.

2.) Next to each plot neatly and lightly record the date.

3.) Do the same for the second hurricane on a separate graph.


Part 3: Plotting hurricane air pressure and wind speed.

Below are two graphs one on top of the other line up by date.

1.) Using the data from Hurricane Katrina chart given from the first hurricane
plot the
air pressure on the top graph and wind speed on the bottom graph below.
Questions:

1.) What is the relationship between air pressure and wind speed as shown above in the
graph?

2.) What happened to the wind speed when the hurricane was over land?

3.) Explain why you think the wind speed changed when over land?

4.) What happened to the wind speed for Hurricane Katrina on 8/24 & 8/29?

Why?

Below is an image of all hurricane tracks from 1851-2005.

5.) In what general compass direction do most hurricanes move initially?

6.) In what compass direction are the hurricanes that end up in the Northern Atlantic
Ocean moving as they die out?

7.) At what latitude do hurricanes appear to change directions?


8.) Looking at your data in this LAB what do you think warm, moist, stormy air is
associated with a HIGH or LOW pressure?

9.) Trace the paths of the hurricanes in the charts in this LAB, which way do the paths
veer? Straight, left or right?

Name ______________________________ Period: _____________ Date: ______________ ______________________________ Hurricane Tra
Part 2: Plotting hurricane path 1.) Using a pencil, plot the position of Hurricane Katrina by latitude and longitude from da
Part 3: Plotting hurricane air pressure and wind speed. Below are two graphs one on top of the other line up by date. 1.) Usi
Questions: 1.) What is the relationship between air pressure and wind speed as shown above in the graph? 2.) What happened
8.) Looking at your data in this LAB what do you think warm, moist, stormy air is associated with a HIGH or LOW pressure? 9.

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