Week 4: 10 February
Tuesday:
Continue with chapter 1
Another look vorticity in cylindrical coordinates (solid body rotation).
Lagrange and Eularian fluid perspectives.
Eularian example.
Convective derivative.
Example of temperature advection. Model output example with caa in SD and waa in IA.
Generalized fluid flow patterns.
Hysplit model and discussion
Week 3: 3 February
Thursday:
Chloe gives a weather discussion. Continue with chapter 1, vector sum, difference, dot product, cross product, gradient, curl and examples.
Tuesday:
Jack gives a weather discussion. Chapter 1, fluid discussion, coordinate systems, scalar and vector fields, hypsometric equation and example.
Atmospheric river weather briefing by the NWS on Thursday 30 January 2025.
Atmospheric river follow up weather briefing by the NWS on Friday 31 January 2025.
Tropopause 2PVU pressure and surface lows and highsPatterns of jetstream flow
Week 2: 27 January
Thursday:
Deanna gives a weather discussion. Atmospheric river weather briefing by the NWS on Thursday 27 January 2025.
Presentation for fronts and air masses in preparation for assignment 1.
Surface pressure anomaly and highs and lows 06z 4 Feb
Tropopause 2PVU pressure and surface lows and highs
Tuesday:
Lauren gives a weather discussion. McAffee's Breezy Insights - Weather discussion
Presentation for fronts and air masses in preparation for assignment 1.
Satellite false color air mass imagery
Quick guide for interpreting air mass imagery.
Example image from the quick guide.
MetEd training on RGB satellite products.Water vapor imagery, look at the color table overlay for "Data". (Example from the Reno snow storm around 20250126_00z.)
Intrepretation of water vapor imagery downwind of mountain ranges (like the Sierras). (Animation from it).
Week 1: 20 January
Thursday:
Luke gives a weather discussion using his weather blog.
Presentation for fronts and air masses in preparation for assignment 1.
Santa Ana winds description.
500 mb level in the atmosphere and its uses.
Tuesday:
Places to learn about what is going on in this class:
Daily Notes (here)
A homework assignment has been posted
Discussion/how-to on forecasts (see Related information for examples)
Webcampus
Introductions: Name and major, and goals for this class.
Syllabus.Opportunity:
NASA EPSCOR UNR undergrad research scholarship opportunity.
Discussion:
Presentation for fronts and air masses in preparation for assignment 1.
Weather forecast for Reno example.
What are polar vortices? NOAA Climate site discussion. General discussion video. Discussion on the weather influence in Britian.
Has the polar vortex weakened enough to cause the cold air outbreak in the Eastern US of January 2025?
Cold air outbreak in the midwest. Temperature anomaly. (example: Run Time: 18Z Jan 19; valid at 18Z Sun, Jan 19 2025).
Earth school example. Start with surface temperature, temperature, then mean sea level pressure, then wind at the surface, 500 mb, 250 mb, and 10 mb, in relation to the polar vortex.
Infrared imagery: Atmosphere in motion.
Combined IR and visible satellite imagery for our neighborhood.Jetstream: The National Weather Service online weather school.
Matrix of topics.Fire tornado in 2020.
A lee wave example, stationary and propagating gravity waves, 20231010: Zoomed view: Zoomed out view.