Browse low pressure Resources

Browse low pressure Resources

Towers in the Tempest

Primary Topic: 
Weather and Climate
Subtopics: 
Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Energy Cycle, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General
Standards: 
ESS2.A
Keywords: 
hurricanes, hot towers, TRMM, low pressure
Summary: 
'Towers in the Tempest' is a 4.5 minute narrated animation that explains recent scientific insights into how hurricanes intensify. This intensification can be caused by a phenomenon called a 'hot tower'.

How do Hurricanes Form?

Diagram of Hurricane formation.
Primary Topic: 
Weather and Climate
Subtopics: 
Weather, Tropical Cyclones
Type: 
Article
Audience: 
Informal, General
Standards: 
ESS2.C
Keywords: 
hurricanes, typhoons, hot towers, low pressure, cumulonimbus
Summary: 
Hurricanes are the most awesome, violent storms on Earth. People call these storms by other names, such as typhoons or cyclones, depending on where they occur. Whatever they are called, tropical cyclones all form the same way.