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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.
Lecture Materials
- The Lifecycle of Midlatitude Cyclones (notes, examples)
- Frontogenesis and Frontolysis (notes, examples)
- The Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation (notes, examples)
- The Quasi-Geostrophic Height Tendency Equation (notes, examples)
- The Quasi-Geostrophic Omega Equation (notes, examples)
- Q Vectors (notes, examples)
- Cyclone Development in the Quasi-Geostrophic System (notes, examples)
- Isentropic Analysis (notes, examples)
- An Introduction to Isentropic Potential Vorticity (IPV; notes, examples)/li>
- IPV Anomaly Structures and Impacts (notes, examples)
- Impacts of Diabatic Heating and Friction on IPV (notes, examples)
- Contrasting the Quasi-Geostropic and IPV Frameworks (notes)
- Cyclone Development from an IPV Perspective (notes, examples)
Resources
- NCAR/RAL Weather Pages
- Storm Prediction Center Soundings Page
- Real-Time QG Diagnostics
- Isentropic and Other Analysis Charts (College of Dupage)
- Isentropic and Other Analysis Charts (Earl Barker)
- Dynamic Tropopause, Q-Vector, and Related Fields (2007-2022 available)
- Dynamic Tropopause Maps
- Real-Time GFS Analyses and Forecasts
- NOAA WPC Probabilistic Winter Precipitation Forecasts
- Pivotal Weather
- Tropical Tidbits
- Weathernerds
- Tomer Burg’s Weather Analyses
- Plymouth State Weather
- HYSPLIT Trajectory Model