Week 1-2: Monitoring and Analyzing Weather
Lecture
Equations
Key concepts/questions
Reading: Chapter 1-2 of Moran, and Chapter 13
Homework (see bblearn):
Internal Weblinks
Supplemental Readings
Supplemental Lecture Videos
Lecture
Equations
Key concepts/questions
- What's the difference between weather and climate?
- How might you use visible and infrared satellite imagery to determine the presence of valley fog?
- How do we reduce surface pressure to mean sea level pressure? Why would you want to do this?
- How do we measure atmospheric observations above the surface? What information does this provide?
- What is the easiest weather forecast one can make?
- What different numerical weather models exist and under which situations might you use them?
- Radiosonde
- Soundings
- Anticyclones/cyclones
- Doppler Effect
- Infrared, Visible and Water Vapor Imagery
- Persistence, Climatological and Analog Forecasting
Reading: Chapter 1-2 of Moran, and Chapter 13
Homework (see bblearn):
- Surface Meteorological Observations, Due Sep 8th
- NWS station selection and website exercise #1, Due Sep 8th
Internal Weblinks
Supplemental Readings
Supplemental Lecture Videos
3. Numerical Weather Prediction