All course materials are in Adobe PDF format. A free reader for PDF files is available from Adobe’s website and is included with recent versions of most major web browsers.
Lab Exercises
This course’s lab exercises, including Jupyter Notebooks that progressively step you through using Python tools to generate synoptic analyses, are available on GitHub.
Notes and Examples
- Meteorological Data and an Introduction to Synoptic Analysis: notes, examples
- Map Projections and Coordinate Systems: notes, examples
- Finite Differences: notes, examples
- Hypsometric Equation and Thickness: notes, examples
- Geostrophic Balance: notes, examples
- Thermal Wind: notes, examples
- Fronts and Frontal Analysis: notes, examples
- Jets and Jet Streaks: notes, examples
- Other Force Balances: notes, examples
- Kinematics of the Wind Field: notes, examples
- Divergence and Vertical Motion: notes, examples
- Skew-T Diagrams and Thermodynamic Properties: notes, examples
- Assessing Atmospheric Stability: notes
Resources
For Further Reading
- GOES-16/17 Quick Reference Guides
- Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1
- Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 2
- Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 3
- The Use of the Skew T, Log P Diagram in Analysis and Forecasting
- Blank Skew-T/ln-p Diagrams