GEOGRAPHY G433/533: SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

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
Example course syllabus


Example course assignments
 Assignment #1
Assignment #2
Assignment #3
Blank Skew-T diagrams
Review sheet for the exam

EXAMPLE 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
  • 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