2013 assignments/exams

• Assignment 5 and data file for Option B [comma-separated utah.csv: Excel 2003 utah.xml: Excel 2010 utah.xlsx]
• Assignment 4. Review of a classic paper
• Assignment 3. Data as tab-separated text files: Vancouver.csv, Whitehorse.csv, Yellowknife.csv, Calgary.csv, Edmonton.csv, Regina.csv, Winipeg.csv, Toronto.csv, Montreal.csv, Halifax.csv. Data as Excel (.xls) files: Vancouver.xls, Whitehorse.xls, Yellowknife.xls, Calgary.xls, Edmonton.xls, Regina.xls, Winipeg.xls, Toronto.xls, Montreal.xls, Halifax.xls. Here is a table giving area under the "normal curve" (second column).
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 1

2012 assignments/quizzes/exams

• Final exam
• Final exam (with answers for parts A,B). Resources for the "live" web data question (B):
  • Gem 0h prog valid 20120420@06Z (precipitable water)
  • Gem 0h prog (b/w 4-panel chart) valid 20120420@06Z (500 hPa vorticity, upper left panel)
  • Gem 0h prog (colour 4-panel chart) valid 20120420@06Z (500 hPa vorticity, upper left panel)
• Assignment 3
• Mid-term exam
• Mid-term exam with answers. Data and charts relevant to Question B (mostly GEM charts)
• Assignment 2. Associated resources:
  • blank cross-section (Fort Smith --- Wilmington)
  • ysm sounding
  • yqd sounding
  • inl sounding
  • grb sounding
  • iln sounding
  In the sounding files the columns are: pressure, height ASL, temperature, dewpoint, wind direction, wind speed [m/s]. Sounding temperatures and dewpoints must be divided by 10, and 32767 indicates missing data.
• Assignment 1

2011 assignments/quizzes/exams

• Final exam
• Final exam with (some) answers
• Midterm exam (2)
• Midterm exam (2) with answers
• Assignment 2
• Midterm exam (1)
• Midterm exam (1) with answers
• Assignment 1

2010 assignments/quizzes/exams

• Final exam
• Final exam with answers. Maps and charts for Part B, valid (except in the case of the forecast prog) at 12Z on 19 April 2010:
  • YQD (The Pas) sounding
  • YSM (Fort Smith) sounding
  • WLW (Kelowna) sounding
  • 0-hr GEM Regional forecast
  • NAM forecast sounding for CYYC
  • Pertaining to the weather situation over western Canada:
    • CMC surface analysis
    • CMC 850 hPa analysis
    • CMC 700 hPa analysis
    • CMC 500 hPa analysis

• Assignment 2
• Second mid-term exam
• Second mid-term exam with answers. Maps, charts and data one may have referred to for Part A included:
  • surface analysis valid 12Z Tues 9 Mar.
  • 850 hPa analysis valid 12Z Tues 9 Mar.
  • 700 hPa analysis valid 12Z Tues 9 Mar.
  • 500 hPa analysis valid 12Z Tues 9 Mar.
  • Edmonton sounding 12Z Tues 9 Mar., and data
  • GEM 00hr prog 12Z precipitable water
  • NAM 6-hr prog valid 12Z Tues 9 Mar.
  • GEM 00-hr prog for 850 hPa vertical velocity valid 12Z Tues 9 Mar.
  • CMC GEM 24-hr prog 4 pnl clr chart valid 12Z Wed 10 Mar
  • CMC GEM 24-hr prog 4 pnl b/w chart valid 12Z Wed 10 Mar
• Assignment 1
• First mid-term exam
• First mid-term exam with answers. Maps and charts one might may have consulted as "Live" web weather data for use in Part A:
  • CMC 500 hPa analysis valid 12Z Tues 2 Feb.
  • CMC 700 hPa analysis valid 12Z Tues 2 Feb.
  • CMC 850 hPa analysis valid 12Z Tues 2 Feb.
  • CMC surface analysis valid 12Z Tues 2 Feb.
  • Edmonton sounding 12Z Tues 2 Feb.
  • Edmonton sounding data 12Z Tues 2 Feb.
  • CMC's GEM 00hr prog valid 12Z (vertical velocity at 850 hPa)
  • NCEP's NAM 00hr prog valid 12Z Tues 2 Feb.
  • CMC's GEM 24 hr prog valid 12Z Wed 3 Feb. 2010
  • CMC's METARs from CYEG (Edmonton Int'l Airport)

Last Modified: 18 Mar., 2013