Spring 2001
TWB
denotes
The Weather Book
EOM
denotes Essentials of Meteorology
Links are
enrichment, not required reading
Introduction
- General background
TWB: Chapter 1: USA's wild weather
EOM: Chaper 1: The earth's atmosphere
- Solar heating: the ultimate cause of all atmospheric motion
- Temperature differences make pressure gradients
TWB: Chapter 2: How the sun causes weather
EOM: Chapter 2: Warming the earth and the atmosphere
The development of thermometers and temperature scales
TWB: Chapter 3: Why the wind blows
EOM: Chapter 3: Air temperature
EOM: Chapter 6: Air pressure and winds
EOM: Chapter 7: Atmospheric circulations
Gas law demonstrator
Mountain lee wave visible satellite loop (6.4 MB)
NOAA El Nino Theme Page
- Highs, lows and fronts
- Weather forecasting
TWB: Chapter 4: Storms, fronts
EOM: Chapter 8: Air masses, fronts and middle latitude cyclones
Idealized mid-latitude cyclone: surface temperatures and isobars (1.6 MB)
Idealized mid-latitude cyclone: 500 mb heights and surface isobars (1.6 MB)
Nov 98 mid-west cyclone: IR, 500 mb heights and surface isobars (2.9 MB)
Nov 98 mid-west cyclone: surface isobars, winds and temperatures (2.9 MB)
TWB: Chapter 11: How to predict the weather
EOM: Chapter 9: Weather forecasting
- The behavior of water vapor and liquid water in the air
- Precipitation extremes
- Rainbows, halos, etc.
TWB: Chapter 5: What makes rain?
EOM: Chapter 4: Humidity, condensation and clouds
EOM: Chapter 5: Cloud development and precipitation
TWB: Chapter 6: Floods, droughts
TWB: Chapter 7: Snow and ice
TWB: Chapter 10: Sky watching
EOM: Chapter 15: Light, color and atmospheric optics
- Thunderstorms and tornadoes
- Hurricanes
TWB: Chapter 8: Thunderstorms and tornadoes
EOM: Chapter 10: Thunderstorms and tornadoes
NSSL Oklahoma Tornadoes
TWB: Chapter 9: Hurricanes
EOM: Chapter 11: Hurricanes
The baddest hurricanes. FAQ
- Climate change
TWB: Chapter 12: The future of earth
EOM: Chapter12: Air Pollution (pp. 319-324)
EOM: Chapter 14: Climate change