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AT540 Daily Weather Laboratory I
Professor Roger A. Pielke, Sr.
Fall 2002 Syllabus
Please
note the following:
All
Lab Exercises are due 2 weeks after they are assigned
* = Makeup Dates
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Aug. 27
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Tuesday | Course Overview Read pages 2-16; Lab #1 assigned (DIA;INL;IAD) |
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Aug. 29
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Thursday | Lecture: Depiction of the Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere |
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Sept. 3
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Tuesday | Lecture: Thermodynamic Analyses (Part I) Read pages 86-100 Lab #2 assigned |
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Sept. 5
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Thursday | Lecture: Thermodynamic Analyses (Part II) Read pages 100-103 |
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Sept. 6*
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Friday | Lecture: Thermodynamic Analyses (Part III) |
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Sept. 10
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Tuesday | Rescheduled for Sept. 6 |
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Sept. 12
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Thursday | Rescheduled for Sept. 16 |
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Sept. 16*
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Monday | Lecture: Depiction of the Horizontal Structure of the Atmosphere
(Part I) Read pages 17-37 Lab #3 assigned |
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Sept. 17
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Tuesday | Lecture: Depiction of the Horizontal Structure of the Atmosphere (Part II) |
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Sept. 19
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Thursday | Lecture: Depiction of the Horizontal Structure of the Atmosphere
(Part III) Read pages 37-50 |
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Sept. 24
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Tuesday | Lecture: Depiction of the Horizontal Structure of the Atmosphere
(Part IV) Read pages 51-85 FX-Net Demonstration Lab #4 assigned |
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Sept. 26
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Thursday | Rescheduled for Sept. 27 |
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Sept. 27*
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Friday | Lecture: Depiction of the Horizontal Structures of the Atmosphere
(Part V) Read pages 104-146 |
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Oct. 1
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Tuesday | Lecture: Synoptic Modeling (Part I) Read model summary (Available here: http://blue.atmos.colostate.edu/courses/NT-59.pdf) Click here for the lab for today |
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Oct. 3
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Thursday | Lecture: Synoptic Modeling (Part II) Read Eta model description (Available here: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/modelinfo/index.html) |
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Oct. 8
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Tuesday | Rescheduled for Oct. 11 |
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Oct. 10
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Thursday | Lecture: Synoptic Modeling (Part III) Read NCEP Global model discussion (Available here: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/modelinfo/index.html) |
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Oct. 11*
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Friday | Lecture: Synoptic Modeling (Part IV) Read ensemble modeling discussion (http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/images/ens/ens.html) Assign Lab Exercise #5 |
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Oct. 14*
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Monday | Class Cancelled |
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Oct. 15
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Tuesday | Resecheduled for Oct. 14 |
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Oct. 17
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Thursday | No Class |
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Oct. 21*
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Monday | Lecture: Radar Imagery Read Bader et al. 1995 (pages 50-69) (on reserve at ATS library) Assign Lab Exercise #6 |
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Oct. 22
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Tuesday | Lecture: Profilers Read Profiler paper (http://www.profiler.noaa.gov/npn/aboutNpnProfilers.jsp) |
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Oct. 24
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Thursday | Lecture: Surface Mesonets Assign Lab Exercise #7 Read Oklahoma Mesonet paper (Click here for PDF of this paper) |
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Oct. 29
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Tuesday | Lecture: Colorado Climate Read pages 147-152; Colorado Climate Magazine (http://climate.atmos.colostate.edu/magazine.shtml) |
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Oct. 31
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Thursday | Review of midterm tests See midterms in weather lab notes |
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Nov. 5
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Tuesday | MIDTERM (Open Book) |
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Nov. 7
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Thursday | Drought: Guest Lecturer: Nolan Doesken |
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Nov. 11
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Monday | Lecture: Tornado Forecasting Read STORMS (pages 101-132) (on reserve in ATS library) |
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Nov. 12
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Tuesday | Lecture: Trajectory Analyses Read trajectory modeling paper (Click here to read as a PDF) |
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Nov. 14
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Thursday | Lecture: Hurricane Track and Intensity Modeling Read hurricane modeling paper (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutmodels.shtml) Assign Lab Exercise #8 |
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Nov. 19
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Tuesday | Lecture: Flood Forecasting Read STORMS (pages 80-102; 475-490) (on reserve in ATS library) |
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Nov. 21
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Thursday | Rescheduled for Nov. 11 |
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Dec. 3
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Tuesday | Rescheduled for Dec. 9 |
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Dec. 5
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Thursday | Discuss Lab Exercises |
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Dec. 6
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Friday | No Class |
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Dec. 9
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Monday | Discuss Lab Exercises |
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Dec. 12
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Thursday | Review of Course Material |
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