GEOGRAPHY G433/533: SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

Spring 2006

Prof. S.C. Pryor.

Overview: Analysis and prediction of synoptic scale weather systems, emphasizing the mid-latitudes. Other topics covered include severe weather.

RESOURCES
Posters from the class of Fall 2004
Description of the ASOS instrumentation
Course syllabus
Course notes (select the course and use the password: meteorology)

ASSIGNMENTS
Paper assignment instructions
An example of a previous paper submitted within G433
Assignment #1
Assignment #2
Assignment #3
Blank Skew-T diagrams
Review sheet for the exam

PAST EXAMS
A PDF of the review sheet for the final exam
A PDF of a final exam

WWW LISTINGS
Data sources

Weather servers from around the world

Remote sensing servers from around the World

NWS Doppler radar data

Data portal for radar imagery (including the Doppler component)

Satellite coverages and orbits

Analyses

Help with Skew-T Log-P diagrams

MORE help with Skew-T log-P

Print and interpret skew-T log-P diagrams
Kinematics

Blocking situations

Blocking PPT slide show

Severe weather

National Hurricane Center

Hurricanes - analysis from 1999

Hurricane forecasts for the Atlantic

What is the relationship between hurricanes and El Nino?

The perfect storm

Linkages between urban heat islands and severe weather: A case study of Atlanta

Climate of 2004

This is a great link to information about ENSO.

A global montage created using satellite data, sea surface temperatures and obse rved land temperatures.
Numerical weather forecasting

Numerical weather predictions for western US and Canada from UBC