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Hurricanes: The Heat Diffusers

CSEF · 2008 Earth & Planetary Sciences

Charlotte M.N. Mayeda · Rose Avenue School, Oxnard, Ventura County

Overview

Methods/Materials Computer with internet access and a printer. Results The data I#ve collected shows that after collecting a total of 41 hurricanes and tropical storms. It turned out that the hurricanes supported my hypothesis and the tropical storms didn#t. Out of a total of 22 hurricanes, 13 hurricanes showed coolness on the day it hit the buoy and the day after. This means that 59% of the hurricanes were supportive of my hypothesis. On the other hand the group of tropical storms had a total of 7 supporting and 12 not supporting. This made for a total of 36% of the tropical storms supporting and 63 % not supporting. This shows that the stronger the storm then the cooler the ocean. Conclusions/Discussion In conclusion my data showed that 59% of the hurricane data did support my hypothesis, and only 36% of my tropical storm data supported my hypothesis. I feel that this is a good percentage of data in support of my hypothesis. However I do believe that if I would have collected more hurricane and tropical storm data it might have led to a higher percentage of supporting data, which have helped me in the long run for the science fair. Here I used the variables in this experiment were hurricanes verses tropical storms. All together out of my science project I feel that I would have had a better understanding of interpreting the data represented by the graphs. I also wonder what would have happened if I had had more data. Would my hypothesis have been better supported or less well supported. I also have questions about how hurricanes affect sea creatures. Knowing that a stronger storm does cool the ocean has led me to come up with many more questions, and another opportunity to study and learn.

Summary statement

The purpose of my project was to test if hurricanes cool the ocean.

Help received

Mother helped type report and paste up board. Father helped with information and testing. Advisor guided me through the scientific process.

Competition history

  • CSEF 2008 Earth & Planetary Sciences · Entry J0711

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