Title

Decoding METAR Data

Author

STORM Project

Grade Level

Gr. 9; Gr. 10; Gr. 11; Gr. 12; Gr. Secondary

Document Type

Activities and Labs

Keywords

Environmental science--Experiments; Ecology--Experiments; Atmospheric physics--Experiments;

Abstract

Objectives: Students will decode a METAR report and convert the decoded METAR data to a station model plot.

National Science Education Standard: All students should develop an understanding of: abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, properties and changes of properties in matter, understandings about science and technology, and structure of the earth system.

Department

Department of Earth Science

Department

STORM Project - Science Center for Teaching, Outreach, and Research on Meteorology

Comments

Level 2 Weather Activities:

• Activity 1: Reading Universal Time
• Activity 2: Drawing Isotherms
• Activity 3: Structure of the Atmosphere
• Activity 4: Winds Around Highs and Lows
• Activity 5: Fronts
• Activity 6: Mid-Latitude Cyclones
• Activity 7: Precipitation Patterns
• Activity 8: Drawing Isobars
• Activity 9: Air Pressure and Weather
• Activity 10: Decoding METAR Data
• Activity 11: Reading and Using Meteograms
• Activity 12: Upper Air Plots

Original Date

2007

Copyright

©2007 The STORM Project, University of Northern Iowa

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

STORM Project, "Decoding METAR Data" (2007). Open Educational Resources. 42.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/oermaterials/42