1. Weather Observations
Lectures:
Review of observational platforms used in synoptic and mesoscale analysis.
Labs: Access, display, and
interpretation of surface, upper air, and satellite observations
2. Introduction to Weather
Satellites and their Imagery
Lectures: Hardware
description. Basic concepts. Interpretation of visible, infrared,
microwave, and moisture imagery.
Labs: Analysis
of satellite imagery.
3. Introduction to Weather
Radar and Its Interpretation
Lectures: History
of weather radar. Modern radar technology. Doppler and
dual-polarization interpretation.
Labs: Weather
radar interpretation exercises.
4. Basic Conceptional
Understanding of Fronts and Cyclones
Lectures:
Norwegian Cyclone Model, including 3D evolution. Fronts and frontogenesis. Upper-level
frontal origins and evolution. Jet streams.
Labs: Upper
air analyses. Frontal and surface analysis. Cross-sectional
analyses.
5. Modern Ideas on Synoptic
Structure and Evolution
Lectures: Variations
of synoptic evolution between land and water. Shapiro/Keyser model. Three-dimensional
airflow in cyclones. Numerical simulations of cyclone/frontal evolution.
Vorticity and potential vorticity viewpoints, potential vorticity and PV thinking.
Labs: Analysis
of three-dimensional structures and trajectory analyses using model data.
6. Introduction
to Numerical Weather Prediction and Forecasting
Lectures:
Major steps in weather prediction. Numerical weather prediction and
models. Forecast postprocessing. AI weather prediction. Accessing weather information.
Labs:
Comparisons of weather prediction model forecasts. Forecast exercises.
7. The Synoptic Meteorology of Extreme Weather
Lectures: Heatwaves and cold waves, atmospheric rivers
and extreme precipitation, organized convection, air quality degradation.
8. Tropical
Meteorology
Lectures: Basic
characteristics and comparison to midlatitudes. Easterly waves and tropical
storms. Streamline and isotach analyses
Labs: Satellite interpretation in the tropics. Tropical analyses.