http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:22 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:22 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=81081 The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), an advanced sounder containing 2378 infrared channels and four visible/near-infrared channels, aimed at obtaining highly accurate temperature profiles within the atmosphere plus a variety of additional Earth/atmosphere products. AIRS will be the highlighted instrument in the AIRS/AMSU-A/HSB triplet centered on measuring accurate temperature and humidity profiles throughout the atmosphere. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83277 website that contains materials in the history of aeronautics, science principles of aeronautics and careers in aeronautics for grades 4-14. Site also has a teachers' guide related to national science and math standards and sunshine state standards http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84920 Excellent presentation of inviscid flow around airfoils and other shapes that includes graphical representations of various flow fields. Includes an interactive tutorial on the Joukowski Transformation. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84919 JAVA applet to generate NACA 4-Digit Airfoils from user input. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86535 VectorPad is a Tablet PC application to visually introduce students to Vector MathUsers draw vectors with electornic ink and the computer performs the following operations: vector addition, vector subtraction, dot product, cross product, vector projections and shows the result graphically.