How can I participate in the on-going GLOBE El Niño-Southern Oscillation Experiment?

As with El Niño, GLOBE students can help test the La Niña predictions or hypotheses for their areas by taking GLOBE measurements faithfully and carefully during the coming months. The predictions given in the maps above focus on temperature and moisture, so special effort should be devoted to your measurements of air, surface water, and soil temperature, solid and liquid precipitation, and soil moisture. Your other GLOBE measurements remain important as well and offer additional opportunities to help scientists understand the full effects of La Niña. Remember that even if the predictions for your area are that there will be no effect, that is still a hypothesis you can test. If your school is new to GLOBE, this is a good reason to get going; the La Niña will not wait. If your school already has been taking measurements, this is a great time to expand your measurements and to take data as frequently as requested in the current GLOBE II protocols. The GLOBE investigators, other ...  more