How to Participate - CALIPSO
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You and your students can join the GLOBE community in participating in NASA's CALIPSO Mission. Here are several ways to participate:
1. GLOBE Field Campaigns:
- European Aerosols Campaign - The main objective is to inspire teachers and students to bring their local project to an international level by sharing their data with other schools, by using satellite data and by receiving scientific feedback.
2. GLOBE Protocols:
- Aerosols Protocol - Students use a red/green sun photometer to measure the amount of sunlight reaching the ground when clouds do not cover the sun.
- Cloud Protocols: Students estimate the amount of cloud and contrail cover, observe which types of clouds are visible and count the number of each type of contrail.
o Cloud Chart (English, French, Spanish)
o Cloud Chart (Arabic, Chinese, Russian)
- Contrail Chart (English, French, Spanish)
- Contrail Chart (Russian, Chinese, Arabic)
- Contrail Formation Guide (English, French, Spanish)
- For more resources on Contrails, Go to the Contrail Education Website: http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/contrail-edu/
3. GLOBE Learning Activities:
- Observing, Describing, and Identifying Clouds - Students begin to learn cloud types and their names.
- Estimating Cloud Cover - Students practice estimating how much of the sky is covered by clouds.
- Cloud Watch - Students monitor clouds and weather to begin to understand the connections between the two.
- Observing Visibility and Sky Color - Students observe sky color and learn to associate color with the presence or absence of aerosols.
- Calculating Relative Air Mass - Students are introduced to the concepts of solar elevation angle and relative air mass and learn how to determine relative air mass from measurements of solar elevation angle.