ESA - Eduspace EN - Weather and Climate - Climate, Seasons and Weather in the Himalayas

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Climate, Seasons and Weather in the Himalayas - Worksheet introduction

Some of the following exercises require the use of the LEOWorks software. LEOWorks has been developed by the ESA.

ArcExplorer is a lightweight GIS data viewer developed by ESRI. This freely available software offers an easy way to perform basic GIS functions. ArcExplorer is used for a variety of display, query, and data retrieval applications and supports a wide variety of standard data sources. It can be used on its own with local data sets or as a client for Internet data and map servers.

Manual Exercises:
Manual Exercises

Exercise using LEOWorks:
Study of Water Vapour in the Atmosphere

Exercise using LEOWorks and ArcExplorer:
The Summer-Monsoon and its Floods

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Himalaya

Introduction Background

Exercises

Manual exercises Study of water vapour in the atmosphere The summer monsoon and its floods

Links

Meteosat images Weather broadcast worldwide Climate system CARE DLR - Basemapping
of Dhaka

Eduspace - Software

LEOWorks 3 ArcExplorer

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