ATMS 502 Graphics from Lectures

Atmospheric Sciences 502
Introduction to Synoptic Meteorology
Fall 2012

Graphics from Lectures
Last updated 21 November 2012

This webpage will be used to supplement lecture material with graphics, links, etc. It will also be used to provide graphics for lab exercises. It will be updated on an as-needed basis.

Climatology Loops

NH 500 hght
SH 500 hght
NH 1000 hght
SH 1000 hght
NH 1000 temp
SH 1000 temp
30-day means NH for past spring/summer from NOAA/ESRL
30-day anomalies for past spring/summer from NOAA/ESRL
7-day mean/anom for this past week from NOAA/ESRL
30-day anom surface temp from NOAA/ESRL
station locations

Geostrophic Wind Exercise

Group 1 example 1
Group 2
- example 2 part 1
- example 2 part 2
Group 3 example 3
Group 4example 4

Heights 500 & 1000 inclass exercise

500 + 1000 heights

Cyclone Structure
Examples of strong fronts

Nov 2003 find front in surface obs
Oct 2005 find front in surface obs
January 2004 front
- timeseries UW rooftop
- IR imagery
- Vis imagery
Feb 2006 front
- surface analysis Focus on Oklahoma
- timeseries from 2 OK mesonet stations
October 2008 front
November 2009 front
- surface analysis focus on Vancouver Island
- Timeseries at Port Alberni, BC in middle of Vancouver Island
October 2010
- surface maps Focus on UIL
- soundings
Nov 2010 front
- surface reports
- Pot. Temp analysis
- picture from Jim Steenburgh's house
- soundings do in xterm?
Oct 2012 front
- 500 + slp
- vis 1km
- difax surface maps
- moses_lake_metar.txt
- surface plots kbil
- billings_MT_metar.txt
- surface plots kden
- BAO timeseries

November 1998 case for lab

Satellite Examples

Satellite Lab

Satellite Pix for fun

QG-analysis of current weather

26 Feb 2009

Upperfront lab

Nov 98 trajectory lab

Nov 98 support graphics