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Atmospheric Protocols and Their Reactions to a Change in Seasons
Organization(s):Ottawa Hills Jr/Sr High School
Country:United States of America
Student(s):Sam Kapadia and Ewan Ritchey
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
Educator(s):Gloria Kreischer Gajewicz
Contributors:Ms. Sara Mierzwiak
Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report, Mission Earth Report
Protocols:Air Temperature, Barometric Pressure, Clouds, Relative Humidity, Surface Temperature
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Language(s):English
Date Submitted:03/05/2025
This project focused on atmospheric protocols such as air and surface temperatures, clouds, and humidity. Our project focused on the change and variability of these different atmospheric details over a given amount of time throughout a change of seasons. We focused primarily in the fall into the wintertime, hypothesizing that all protocols would decrease in value over the time. We then tested our experiment over the course of a few months. At the end of our experimentation, we have deduced that our hypothesis was both supported and disproved, depending on the protocol being tested. We deduced a huge drop in air and surface temperatures over this period of time, yet a slight increase in pressure and humidity, spiking at the beginning of December. Our cloud data showed no pattern over the days, yet it did change randomly. This allowed us to deduce there was no significant impact on the changing of the seasons on cloud movement. Due to a few human errors, our experiment might not be the most accurate, such as a lack of data points on our first day of testing that caused our surface temperature to be much higher than what it should’ve been.