Course Documents
Course Syllabus
The Principle of “Me Too”
Important Dates
7 March: Exam #1
11 April: Exam #2
13 May: Final Exam
(Monday, 10-noon)
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Lecture Materials
- January 22, 24: The Life Cycle of Mid-Latitude Cyclones (Cyclone Structure References)
- January 29, 31: Frontogenesis and Frontolysis (Examples)
- February 14: The Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation
- February 19, 21: The Quasi-Geostrophic Height Tendency Equation (Examples)
- February 26, 28: The Quasi-Geostrophic Omega Equation (Examples)
- March 5, 12: The Q-Vector form of the Quasi-Geostrophic Omega Equation (Examples)
- March 14, 26, 28: Cyclone Development in the Quasi-Geostrophic System (Application Material)
- March 19, 21: NO CLASSES – SPRING BREAK
- April 2, 4: Isentropic Analysis (Examples)
- April 9, 16, 18: An Introduction to Isentropic Potential Vorticity (IPV) (Constructing the Dynamic Tropopause Example)
- April 23, 25: IPV Anomaly Structures and Impacts (Examples)
- April 30, May 2: Impacts of Diabatic Heating and Friction upon IPV (Examples)
- May 2: Contrasting the Quasi-Geostropic and IPV Frameworks (updated 8 May)
- May 7, 9: Cyclone Development from an IPV Perspective
Exercises
- Exercise 1: due Tuesday, February 5
- Exercise 2: due Tuesday, February 26
- Exercise 3: due Tuesday, March 12
- Exercise 4: due Tuesday, March 26
- Exercise 5: due Tuesday, April 2
- Exercise 6: due Tuesday, April 9
- Exercise 7: due Tuesday, April 23
- Exercise 8: due Tuesday, May 7
Miscellany
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
- Isentropic Potential Vorticity and Tropopause Maps
- Real-Time GFS Analyses and Forecasts
- NOAA WPC Winter Weather Diagnostics
- Pivotal Weather
- Tropical Tidbits
- Weathernerds
- Plymouth State Weather
- HYSPLIT Trajectory Model