You’ve been invited by University of Reading to join an online course on FutureLearn
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to...
- Interpret synoptic charts and use them to describe weather details such as wind speed and direction, precipitation and cloud cover.
- Explore depressions and discover why they are so significant in mid-latitude locations such as the UK.
- Investigate the physical processes behind weather, such as warm air rising, cloud formation and the Coriolis effect with experiments you can do at home.
- Record your local weather conditions and share your findings.
- Reflect on the processes that affect the Earth’s atmosphere and therefore climate, both natural (volcanoes, orbit) and man-made (greenhouse gases).
- Apply your understanding of mid-latitude weather systems to analyse weather data and images.