Meteorology 3510- Weather Observations and Analysis II
Instructor- John Horel
Office Hours: T-TH 1-2 or by appointment; INSCC 483
Phone: 581-7091
Email: John Horel
Class Hours: TH 10:45-12:05. Substantial additional time outside of the class is expected to complete assignments.
Classroom: 490 INSCC
Prerequisites: METEO 3110 and 3410.
Grading: The course grade will be determined from class
participation and assignments (30%), class project (25%), midterm (20%), and final (25%).
Class participation includes attending at least 1 weather discussion (Meteo 5810) per week.
Class Project
As a means to gain additional experience with instrumentation, the class will help to design, test, and deploy a portable infrared sensor to measure snow temperature along a cross-country course.
Data will be collected and analyzed from the Soldier Hollow course, assuming there is any snow to measure.
One class period each week will be devoted to the class project at the outset of the semester.
Texts: Weather Analysis by Dusan Duric.
Course Outline: (Tentative schedule by week)
Week
1:Instrumentation. Reading Assignment: Handouts
2:Thermodynamics. Reading Assignment: Chapter 1 and 5.
3:Moist thermodynamics. Reading Assignment: Skewt Manual
4: Stability. Reading Assignment: Chapter 5.
5: Stability. Reading Assignment: Chapter 5.
6: Manual Analysis. Reading Assignment: Chapter 3.
7: Manual Analysis. Reading Assignment: Chapter 3.
8: Manual Analysis. Midterm. Reading Assignment: Chapter 3.
9: Kinematics. Reading Assignment: Chapter 4.
10: Kinematics. Reading Assignment: Chapter 4.
11: Spring break.
12: Thermal Structure. Reading Assignment: Chapter 6.
13: Thermal Structure. Midterm. Reading Assignment: Chapter 6.
14: Dynamics. Reading Assignment: Chapter 7.
15: Dynamics. Reading Assignment: Chapter 7.
16: Review