870:121 Meteorology
Fall 2009
Professor Alan Czarnetzki
Weather Briefing Resources The American Meteorological Society
Bow Fall Streaks AMS Policy Statement on Bachelor's Degree
STORM Forecasting Exercise The National Weather Association Central Iowa Chapter
Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science Air and Waste Management Association
November 1998 Midlatitude Cyclone NCDC State of the Climate
Model
Display Resource IA Mesonet
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Lab 1 Resources:
ASOS sites ASOS map METAR Identifiers METAR Handbook Time UTC Time Conversion Table
Online UTC and local time clocks Fed. Met. Handbook No. 12 WBAN Numbers Station Networks from IEM
METAR data: use the “STORM Forecasting Exercise” link above; then go to links under Surface Observations
Lab 2 Resources:
Fed. Met. Handbook No. 3 Sample 500 mb Analysis 500 mb Chart (Problem 1) 850 mb Chart (Problem 2) 300 mb Chart (Problem 3)
Upper Air Plots and Maps: use the “STORM Forecasting Exercise” link above; then go to links under Upper Air Maps
Lab 3 Resources:
Surface Plots and Maps: use the “STORM Forecasting Exercise” link above; then go to links under Surface Maps and Surface Observations
Lab 4 Resources:
Not needed for the lab, but may be useful: Time of Sunrise and Sunset Solar Position Calculator UNI Pyranometer Data
Surface Radiation Data from NOAA Iowa Radiation Data
US Climate Reference Network National Solar Radiation Database
Lab 5 Resources:
Occupational Outlook Handbook NCSU Major and Career Resource WMO Guidelines for Education and Training
Lab 6 Resources:
Precipitable Water Climatology DataStreme Precipitable Water Plot (divide by 2540 to get inches)
Real-Time Precipitable Water from SuomiNet Moisture Calculator
Lab 7 Resources:
Images and Links for Lab 7 Radar Training for Emergency Managers module NOAA Radar Operations Center
Lab 8 Resources:
Current Soundings: SkewT
Diagrams from College of DuPage
SPC Sounding Analyses
SkewTs from Satellite Soundings
Forecast SkewTs: All models, one time
One
model, all times
