- Brussels
November 3-9, 2008
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In the framework of its 50th anniversary,
the Atomium build for the Universal Exhibition of 1958, hosts
the 5th International Weather Forum. A programme of animations,
workshops, meeting with researchers, has been proposed to Grand
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WEATHER |
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- Royal Meteorological
Institute
- The weather forecasting
office
- With MetView, forecasters
from the Royal Meteorological Institute have explained how they
work out weather forecasting.
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- Société
Météorologique de France
- Be a weather broadcaster
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- After a forecasting brief
with the RMI, visitors trained to present a TV weather bulletin
with the help of professional weather broadcasters.
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- Jeunesses
Scientifiques de Belgique
- How a tornado is forming
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- What is a thunderstorm
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- Workshops in which weather
phenomena such as tornadoes, storms etc. were simulated.
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ENVIRONMENT |
- ADEME & Fondation Nicolas Hulot (with Le Club des Petits Débrouillards)
- Build a Wind Pump
- This educational workshop
gave an approach of waste control, renewable energies, the storage
of energies, the air pressure, the air distension caused by the
heat etc.
- What is Green House effect
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- Using a plastic bottle, you
children could build a greenhouse and learn its usefulness and
how to heat a house during winter, thanks to the sun.
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- Ministère
Wallon de l'Environnement
- Le Plan
Air-Climat
- In order to better control
the air quality, to forecast pollution episodes and to determine
the best means of reducing the pollution, the Walloon Minister
for Environment launched a program of 100 concrete actions: the
Air-Climate Plan.
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- European
Commission DG Environment
- You control Climate Change
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- Climate change is a global
problem, and yet each one of us has the power to make a difference.
Recycle, walk, save energy...easy to say but how can we concretely
act ?
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- STIB
- STIB is the public transport
company in Brussels and acts for a sustainable mobility.
- Visitors could calculate their
Co2 consumption (type of vehicule, miles/year, average consumption
of your car etc.) and were given a result of their C02 emissions.
This calculator could also indicate the possible reduction of
CO2 when public transport is used.
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CLIMATE |
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- Institut
National des Sciences de l'Univers du CNRS
- Our future climate
- What is green house effect
? What about global warming, its causes and impacts ? Researchers
from the Institute who are working on the climate situation answered
to all the questions.
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- International
Polar Foundation
- Model of the Princess
Elisabeth station
- The Belgian polar station
Princess Elisabeth is the first polar station "zero-emissions"
working only with renewable energies.
- Polar jigsaw-puzzles
- With two interactive 3D-jigsaw
puzzles representing the polar regions children discovered the
importance of polar research in the complex climate problem.
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- Sciences
Department of the University of Brussels
- Climate: changes in the
air !
- What are the scientific observations
on solar energy dispatching, airstream, sea currents, climate
change indicators and climate variations ? Two experiments about
a tornado forming and the simulation of the green house effect
have been also proposed.
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- Bruxelles
Environnement
(atelier
animé par Cap Sciences)
- Le réchauffement
climatique
- Atelier pour
modéliser la durée du jour, de la nuit et les différentes
saisons et expériences sur l'effet de serre.
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ENERGIES |
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- Delta Lloyd
- The Solar Boat
- With the team of the Delft
University of Technology (The Netherlands), visitors have discovered
the solar boat from the Frisian Solar Challenge 2008.
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- Bruxelles
Environnement
- (with Cap
Sciences)
- Global warming
- Modelizing the length of the
day, the night and the various seasons. Experiment on greenhouse
effect. Impact of global warming on the sea level. Simulation
of a polluted cloud.
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- Elia
- Energy on the right track
- Elia is Belgium’s transmission
system operator and is responsible for the transmission of electricity.
Electricity is transmitted over the high-voltage grid from electricity
generators to the distribution system operators and large industrial
consumers.
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SPACE |
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- ESA - European
Space Agency
- Earth seen from space
(quiz - game)
- Test of knowledge
- Window on the world (game)
- An interactive spatial journey
to discover our planet through the powerful eye of a satellite
and its applications for remote sensing.
- Build your own satellite!
(workshop)
- This animation described the
role of meteorological satellite in Earth observation. Children
could learn how to build a satellite model.
- Heavens Above! (game)
- The different ways in which
satellite remote sensing can safeguard our environment.
- Satellites provide assistance
to Earth (workshop)
- Remote sensing is used for
observing and understanding different kind of phenomena such
as urban pollution, fires or epidemics. Visitors had to explain
causes and consequences (where, why, how, impact) of the observed
phenomena.
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