Geography 407 - Advanced Synoptic Meteorology
Assigned Readings and Website Sources:
- Doppler Weather Radar Overview
- Review of Hodographs
- Hodograph Interpretation
- Radar Basics - Basics, Imagery, Velocity Patterns
- Skew-T Module
- Changing Stability
- Introduction
- Heating and Cooling
- Advection
- Vertical Motion
- Penetrative Convection
- Moistening
- Other Instabilities
- MAULs
- CSI
- Convection
- Airmass Thunderstorms
- Severe Thunderstorms
- Convective Wind Gusts
- Microbursts: Wet vs. Dry
- Hail
- Heavy Precip./Flash Floods
- Buoyancy and CAPE Module
- Shear and Convective Storms Module
- Summer Severe Weather Module
- Supercell Powerpoint
- Tornadoes
- Tornado Climatology
- Fujita Scale
- Enhanced Fujita Scale
- Quizzes to be completed for: Skew-T Module and the Shear and Convective Storms Module
Be sure to work through the following:
