ATSC 5160-5007, Synoptic Meteorology
Spring 2015
Listed below are a number of ppt files and external links. This material is by no means comprehensive, rather, it supplements the course. Please do not download the files that are marked under construction () yet. I will make an effort to finalize a topic a few hours before the lecture in which that topic is discussed.
- Chapter 1
- covered in class: observed structure of the planetary-scale extratropical circulation, a survey (ppt)
- background reading (if unfamiliar): introduction to airmasses and fronts (ppt)
- background reading (if unfamiliar): static stability (pdf) MeTed SkewT mastery module (link)
- Chapter 2: QG thinking - ageostrophic flow & vertical motion (ppt)
- Chapter 3: isentropic analysis (ppt)
- Chapter 4: isentropic potential vorticity (ppt)
- Jim Moore's MetEd module on isentropic analysis
- Chapter 5: extratropical cyclones (ppt)
- Chapter 6: fronts (ppt)
- Jim Moore's MetEd module on frontogenetical circulations and stability
- Jim Moore's Meted module on jet streak circulations
- Chapter 7: baroclinic-symmetric instability (ppt)
- an operational approach to slantwise convection (Kent Johnson) plus the accompanying case exercise
Homework assignments
These will be updated
WRF simulations of the 2012/12/20 snow storm
useful links:
Lab assignments based on your WRF simulation (pls don't work ahead of schedule)
conus
RAP surface |
LAR last 24 hrs
LAR
wunderground |
CYS
NWS radar
conus
RAP radar
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region
VIS region IR GOES global |
US/Canada
sfc data
conus
sfc anal + IR |
msfc global satellite |
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Operational models:
NAM
GFS -
PSU e-wall
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NCEP |
Mesoscale models:
NCAR 10
km WRF ( |
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weather gun | U Utah | LAPS (5 km CO & WY) |
Pacific Northwest UW - Ovens - loops |
prog soundings (NOAA) |
prog soundings (twisterdata) |
Bufkit PSU |
WRF user |
ensemble CDC |
sfc & UA map archive |