Quiz Sections
Lab Write Ups
Week 1:
Radiation and Albedo
Week 2: Convection
vs. Conduction
Week 3: Can
Crushing and Pressure
Week 4: Cloud
in a Bottle
Week 5: Contouring
A Gallery of interesting atmospheric phenomena images taken by your classmates
Fiddlewith the forces that go into producing a hurricane! Come on, haven't you always wanted to kermunch Orlando?
Many interesting graphics, some of which are noted here:
Hurricane
Bertha in IR, a wonderful midlatitude
cyclone in IR, a nifty animation of the cyclone's
life
the seasonal
cycle in animation, that whole idea of a force
balance and geostrophic flow
Nasa animation of hurricanes, along with some other interesting things.
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/index.html
KOMO TV's local weather phenomena page.
Station Model Diagram
This information was directly stolen from http://weather.cod.edu/notes/stnmodel.html. Our sincerest apologies, but it's quite good.
77: Temperature
68: Dew point
998: Pressure, to the nearest tenth of a millibar. Add either a 10 or
9 in front based on which would bring the value closer to 1000. The pressure
here is 999.8 millibars (mb).
-03: Pressure tendency the last 3 hours, to the nearest tenth of a millibar. The pressure here has fallen .3 mb the last 3 hours
Middle Circle (filled in w/ mostly black): Cloud cover. It's mostly
black showing that this station is mostly cloudy. Technically, this represents
a
broken sky with 7/8 of the sky covered with clouds.
Black line, extending from circle: Wind barb. It points to where the
wind is coming from. The wind here is from the southwest, hence a
southwest wind. The two lines extending represent 20 knot winds with
each line representing 10 knots.
Symbol between 77 and 68: This is the present weather field and in this case shows that there is a thunderstorm occurring at the station
symbol next to -03: That line is the pressure tendency. The 1st hour the pressure was steady, then fell the last two hours.
Triangle (with a dot above it): Previous weather, or the weather one
hour ago. In this case it was a light rain shower