METR 361

     Spring, 2008

SUNY-Oneonta Department of Earth Sciences        Dr. Jerome Blechman

Syllabus

To install Animagic, unzip this file and run Setup.exe

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State Abbreviations for Forecasting

METR 360 home page from last Fall

SUNY-SB MM5 page (helpful for forecasting)

Click here to download a shareware version of Automize (Large file: 25M!)

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Sample Exams

Spring 2007 Exam 1

Spring 2007 Exam 2

Blank U.S. base map for question 2

Spring 2007 Final Exam

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Spring 2008 Exam 1

Spring 2008 Exam 2 Blank Skew T-Log P chart)

Spring 2008 Final Exam

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Lecture supplements

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Lee-Side Cyclogenesis Examples

Colorado Blizzard Dec 24, 1982	The Colorado Storm of December 20-22, 2006 (PowerPoint)
Fig. 1 12Z surface	Surface Loop
Fig. 2 20Z Satellite	Satellite Loop
Fig 3. 850 mb	850 mb map
Fig. 4. 500 mb	500 mb map
Fig. 5. 500 mb Vorticity	500 mb Absolute Vorticity
Fig. 6. 300 mb	200 mb map 300 mb map
Fig. 7 Radar summary	Radar Loop
Summary and Overview of the Colorado Blizzard Case	Surface Plot for 00Z Dec 21

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Cross section example

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Christmas Day snowstorm of 2002

Powerpoint lectures

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Severe Thunderstorms

Summary Powepoint

SuperOutbreak Maps (mostly from Hoxit and Chappell, 1975)

Track map

Mesoanalysis Surface map

Synoptic 20Z Surface map (from Agee, et. al.)

Satellite image

850 mb

700 mb

500 mb

300 mb

Two tornado soundings

Composite Chart (example - March 27, 2008)

Surface

850 mb

700 mb

500 mb

300 mb

200 mb

Reports

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Summer Synoptics

The flood of 2006 (PowerPoint)

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Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)

PowerPoint Lectures

NWS link

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Modeling

PowerPoint Lectures

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