Introduction
- Mean Structure of the Atmosphere
- Mean
upper and lower circulation and temperatures
- Observations, rawinsondes
Lab: Current Weather
Balanced Flow
- Geostrophic and Gradient winds
- Thickness, thermal wind
Lab: 500mb analysis
Cyclone
Structure
- Upper level patterns
- Surface patterns
- Frontal Analysis
Lab: 850mb analysis
Lab: surface analysis
Cloud and Precipitation structure in cyclones
- Cloud distributions in cyclones
- Satellite applications to cyclones
Lab: Satellite imagery
interpretation
Quasi-Geostrophic Dynamics
- Height Tendency, and application to weather maps
- Diagnosis of Omega
Lab: Cyclone Structure
Cyclogenesis
- Norwegian Cyclone Model
- QG approach to cyclogenesis
- Potential Vorticity Approach to Cyclogenesis
Lab: Potential Vorticity
Cyclogenesis
Frontogenesis
- Kinematic frontogenesis
- 2-D frontogenesis
- Upper Level Fronts
Lab: Upper level fronts
3-D
structure
- Streamlines
- Trajectories, airstreams
Lab: Trajectories
Pacific
Northwest Weather
- Effects of terrain
- Puget Sound Convergence Zone
- Marine Push
- Snowstorms and/or windstorms
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