Student Research Reports

The question that the experiment is testing is how does air temperature affect precipitation, which is important because air temperature in the current age is slowly rising due to global warming. The experiment was designed so that using a temperature sensor and precipitation gauge, the temperature and precipitation was measured at solar noon constantly. The independent variable is air temperature, while the dependent variable is the precipitation, while constant variables include location, time of day, and sensors. After the results were found, the data, visually displayed through a climograph, showed that the air temperature and precipitation did have a moderate positive correlation. However, some outliers appeared, revealing that the air temperature may not always have an effect on the precipitation in an area. From this, it can be said that precipitation is being affected by air temperature, but that isn’t always the case. It is simply a pattern that is being observed which helps scientists understand the effect different air temperatures have on precipitation levels. This may prove useful in the future, since global warming poses a threat to many aspects of the atmosphere, which can be helpful in making an accurate prediction on how it may affect precipitation.