Geography 339: Weather Analysis and Forecasting

Professor S.C. Pryor

The objective of the class is to introduce students to the basics of weather forecasting and analysis of meteorological data. The course relies heavily on 'real world' data analyses in the form of numerical assignments that are undertaken in part in class time.

EXAMPLE SYLLABUS

Syllabus

USEFUL RESOURCES

COURSE TEXT:

Rauber et al. Severe and Hazardous Weather. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. ISBN: 0-7575-1754-4

WWW SITES:

• A resource we will use a lot during this class is the National Weather Service WWW site for the Indianapolis office. The direct WWW link is: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/
• Another WWW site we will use a lot is the book www site which is: http://severewx.atmos.uiuc.edu/
• Another very data rich site is the e-wall at Penn State: http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ewall.html