Instructor: Dr. John Monteverdi, Professor of Meteorology Office hours: TF 0800-0900; Th 1100-1200 or by appointment Office: 613 Thornton Hall Phone: 338-7728 E-mail: montever@sfsu.edu

Exercises

Exercise 1: Thermodynamic Diagrams: Plotting and Interpretation of a Simple Sounding (Marine Layer)

Exercise 2: Thermodynamic Diagrams: Interpretation and Plotting of the Radiosonde Code (Midland Sounding)

Exercise 3: Basic Analysis (Please review all pertinent information from Metr 200/201)

Exercise 4: Synoptic-scale Chart Analysis (Please review all pertinent information from Metr 200/201)

Exercise 5: Final Synthesis (Frontal Analysis and QG-Omega Forcing Terms)

Links

(Note: it is assumed that students have mastered the assignments in Meteorology 200/201)

Metr 200/201/301 Products Page

Support Information on the Web:

Exercises 4 and 5

Reading: Chaston pp. 48-64; Djuric Chapter 6 and 9

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Animation

Wave Cyclone Sequence
Occlusion Analysis
Tilt of Weather System with Assymmetric Temperature Structure
Occlusion
Warm Front Occlusion
Dynamic Controls on Upward Motion

Lab

Subsynoptic Analyses Examples: Outflow Boundary

• Outflow Boundary on Cold Side of Warm Front and MCS
• Outflow Boundary in Warm Sector and MCS
• Outflow Boundary on Warm Side of Warm Front Generates New Storms
• Florida Outflow Boundary

Exercise 3

SPC charts
DIFAX Charts
Analysis Example
Visualization

Exercises 1 and 2

Source for Archived Charts

National Climatic Data Center

Blank Soundings

Skew T/Ln P
Emagram

Sources for Raw Soundings

Forecast Systems Lab Radiosonde Database Access
University of Wyoming

Sources for Plotted Soundings

Real Time Weather Data (UCAR)(Radiosonde)
University of Wyoming (Radiosonde)
NWS GOES-Derived Soundings (Satellite)

Sources for Interactive Sounding Generation

Forecast Systems Lab Sounding Generator

Sounding Interpretation and Using Skew-T Ln P Diagrams

Reading a Skew-T Diagram and a Sounding Plotted On It (Penn State)
Sounding Interpretation (Penn State)

Radiosonde Code

Decoding a Radiosonde Message (Penn State)