METR 361
Weather Analysis and Forecasting II
Spring 2014
 
SUNY-Oneonta
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Jerome Blechman
                                                         

Syllabus

State Abbreviations for Forecasting

Blechman Final Exam week office hour schedule

Exams

Spring 2014 Exam 1
Spring 2014 Exam 2
Spring 2014 Final Exam

Sample Exams

Spring 2013 Exam 1
Spring 2013 Exam 2
Spring 2013 Final Exam


"Instant" Case Study (Lab 1)
Case of the Two Clippers (Lab 2)
Nor'easter Lab
 
Bufkit lab
KEVV profile (ques 8) KGFK profile (ques 9) EON profile (ques 10)

Index Lab

Composite Chart Lab



Lecture supplements



Lee-Side Cyclogenesis Examples

 The Colorado Storm of December 20-22, 2006 (PowerPoint)

The Colorado Blizzard of December 24, 1982

Surface Loop

12Z Surface with inset map (from report by Schlatter, Baker, and Henz)

Satellite Loop

500 mb map

850 mb map

300 mb map

500 mb map

Summary (html)

500 mb Absolute Vorticity

200 mb map     300 mb map

Lab 1 assignment

Radar Loop

MSLP analysis for 00Z Dec 20


 

Nor'easters

Christmas Day 2002 Snowstorm

January 17, 2010  Case Study example


Alberta Clippers

Journal Paper by Thomas and Martin (pdf)


Freezing Precipitation
   

Click for the introduction to top-down forecasting and heterogeneous nucleation

Click to run training for predicting freezing precipitation using BUFKIT

     

Bufkit profiles from Feb 26, 2013

NAM Oneonta initialized 12Z NAMM Oneonta initialized 6Z NAM Binghamton NAM Albany
   

   

Hourly observations at Oneonta (Excel format), Albany and Binghamton (Text format from the Univ. of Wyoming)

Oneonta Obs Albany Obs  Binghamton obs


Bourgouin, 2000 (pdf)


TV Powerpoint

Alyssa


Severe Thunderstorms

Hail Powerpoint

Summary Powerpoint

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 Lab


Summer Synoptics

The flood of 2006 (PowerPoint)


Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)

PowerPoint Lectures

NWS link


Modeling

PowerPoint Lectures

Parameterization paper page 1.gif

Parameterization paper page 2.gif

Parameterization paper page 3.gif

Parameterization paper page 4.gif


BUFKIT lab 2014

METR 361 BUFKIT profiles  (click here to download the BUFKIT installation file)

Buffalo March  3, 2008 Atlanta Jan 15, 2010 JFK Jan 15, 2010
Austin NAM 12Z Feb 5, 2013 Austin NAMm 18Z Feb 5, 2013 Austin GFS 12Z Feb 5, 2013

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