Here's one way: students will present their 2019 GOES Virtual Science Fair winning research at AMS. In addition, these junior scientists will explain how working with this satellite and associated scientists changed their perspective on how they believe science can and should be taught in the middle school classroom.
Student research abstract:
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is the main instrument on GOES-16. It represents a historic improvement over past GOES instruments. The previous generation of GOES gathered information using five spectral bands. The ABI uses 16. The research in this project used Band 13 data. Band 13 measures energy at 10.3 microns. The energy at this wavelength can give information about cloud top temperature (Brightness Temperature - BT) and cloud particle size. Clouds have a correlation to precipitation, so the research team decided to check Band 13 data against amounts of precipitation.
Over a span of 30 days, 21 precipitation measurements were taken using a metric rain gauge, positioned in the school courtyard. The GLOBE program precipitation protocol was followed. ABI Band 13 data was retrieved from the RAMMB Slider, Colorado State University. The team reached out to two scientists. Dr. Tim Schmit, NOAA ASBP and Dr. Dan Lindsey, from the NOAA GOES-R program, both were great mentors.