Atmospheric science, as for many sciences, often relies on patterns for many kinds of data analysis especially when using weather maps for forecasting and research.\u00a0 Historically, maps are filled with as much information as possible for each location over a broad area, i.e., temperature, pressure, wind speed and direction, current weather, cloud cover, and more for each reporting station.\u00a0 The data are coded and the result can seem truly chaotic for an inexperienced scientist while the patterns jumps out to others.\u00a0 Engineering, geology, chemistry and biology are some of the fields that have tackled teaching pattern recognition. \u00a0 Atmospheric science, being a slightly younger and smaller field, is relatively new to this pedagogical research.\u00a0 My newest research interest is in working to help students develop the skills to see meteorological patterns in maps and equations and to discover the underlying science they reveal.
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