• Weather Map Symbols (p. 35)
• Surface Weather Map, Visible and Infrared Sat 9/13/04
• Surface Weather Map for 9/15/04
• Surface Map for 9/24/04
• Incoming Cyclone: Fronts and Winds
• Polar Front: October 20 and July 11
• A Forecast: Surface and 500 mb

• Air Parcels/Air Columns/Pressure
• More on Pressure
• Pressure Features
• Surface Chart 9/24/03
• Surface Chart With Streamlines
• Basic and Annotated 500 mb Chart
• Coriolis Effect
• Cyclone and Anticyclones: Winds
• Controlling Pressure Systems

Divergence Aloft and Surface Pressure System Development

• Conceptual Divergence 1
• Conceptual Divergence 2
• Thermal and Dynamic Surface Pressure Systems
  • Rules of Thumb to Understand Warm Core Lows
  • Thermal and Dynamic Pressure Systems
• Example of a Dynamic Low Pressure System
• • October 14, 2003 Example
• Example of Winter Thermal Pressure System
  • Great Basin High and Tule Fog
  • Great Basin High December 10, 1998
  • Tule Fog, 11/17/04: 1 km Vis Sat, Surface Data Plot, Jet Stream Location, and Sac Wx Data

Summer Fog Patterns

• Controlling Pressure Systems
• Upwelling
• Stratus Along Coast
• More on Summer Patterns
• Pacific High and Motion of Air Into Central Valley During Summer

Rainfall Variability in Mediterranean Climate Zone

• Normals, Means, Extremes
• SF Seasonal Rainfall
• New York Central Park Normals and Averages
• San Francisco "Downtown" Normals and Averages
• Statistical Terms Helpful in Understanding the Manner in Meteorologists Characterize Climate
• San Francisco "Downtown" Normals and Averages
• Return Period Info for Downtown SF Precip
• Example for Discussion of Loose Use of Word "Correlation"
• Rainfall Variability
• Temporal Variability of Rainfall

Offshore Flow -- Santa Ana and Diablo Winds

• Offshore Flow in the Autumn: Diablo Winds
• Diablo Winds and Fire Danger in Coastal California
• Point Reyes Fire: A Diablo Wind Pattern
• Unfolding Diablo Wind Pattern

Bay Area Freezes/Modified Diablo Wind Pattern

• Freezes with strong wind in the winter: Modified Diablo Wind Pattern

Instability and Thunderstorms

• Simple Explanation of Instability
• Common Thunderstorm
• Another Source of Heating
• Potential Heating
• Lightning Animation
• Lightning
• Summer Thunderstorm Pattern
• Bay Area Thunderstorms: 2001
• Bay Area Thunderstorms: 1999
• Newspaper Biases

Satellite

• Satellite Sensors
• Satellite Imagery

Radar(ongoing)

• Conceptual Diagram
• Schematic and Photo: NWS Weather Radar

Wave Cyclones and California Storm "Types"

• Storm Type Characteristics
• Middle Latitude Type Storm: Schematic
• High Latitude Type Storm: SF Chronicle and Schematic
• Weirs and Bypasses
• Low Latitude Type Storm: Schematic and "Pineapple Connection" and SF Examiner (1963)
• Dynamic Lows with Associated Upper Tropospheric Pattern
• In-Class Exercise: Dynamic Lows and Highs