Expert: Donald Rosenfeld - 9/30/2006

Question
I am a high school student doing a physics project over the career over meteorology, and I have to find out how meteorologists use physics.  I know a few things about air pressure, but I was hoping someone could go into more detail.  Can you help me? My project is due October 3!

Answer
Hi Cara

Physics is very important in the study and forecasting of weather!

The interaction of temperature, moisture, volume, elevation, velocity and other variables are all quantified using physics.

Here aresome examples of how physics help with questions about the weather:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/inter/help/weatherphysics.htm

This may also be of interest:

http://www.ehow.com/how_7982_become-meteorologist.html