This study addressed the following question: "How does facilitating informal explorations with friends and family outside of a science course help students who are enrolled in the course?" The context was a physics course for prospective elementary and middle school teachers. This was a qualitative study that analyzed student responses...
Optimal interpolation (OI) has been used to produce analyses of quasi-geostrophic (QG) stream
function over a 59-day period in a 150-km-square domain off northern California. Hydrographic
observations acquired over five surveys, each of about 6 days' duration, were assimilated into a QG
open boundary ocean model. Since the true forecast...
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the Army Air Forces and the Bureau of Aeronautics under the supervision of the Aeronautical Board.