Physical Geography Lab Manual: The Atmosphere and Biosphere
by
Michael Pidwirny can be contacted at the following email address – michael.pidwirny@ubc.ca
PREFACE
The laboratory exercises in this manual have been designed to engage students with activities that promote analytical problem-solving, critical thinking, and active learning through the analysis and interpretation of data. Many questions access data from actual scientific sources on the internet, enhancing the hands-on laboratory experience for students. The exercises have been carefully designed to augment important theoretical topics usually found in the curriculum of a first-year university course in physical geography.
Instructors using this laboratory manual are allowed to modify the question sets. To do this please contact me at my email address michael.pidwirny@ubc.ca so I can create an editable clone of this laboratory manual for your specific classroom needs. Someone editing the question set of a laboratory exercise automatically becomes a co-author but the work must remain licensed as CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Instructors are also welcome to use only part of the exercises available here in their own manual as long as they maintain the copyright license to the work. To get access to the content and code for these exercises please contact me.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Laboratory 4: Mid-Latitude Cyclones, Weather Maps, and Forecasting (Chapter 8)
Laboratory 5: Classification of Global Climates (Chapter 9)
Laboratory 8: Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation (Chapter 12)
Laboratory 9: Climate and the Distribution of Biomes and Soils (Chapter 27)
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Laboratory 11: Tropical Weather and Hurricanes (Chapter 8)
Contents in brackets show corresponding chapters in my eBook Understanding Physical Geography which is available on Google Play and Top Hat.
Updated May 8, 2021