Announcements

• Final exam with answers.

• Open book final exam 0900-1100 Wednesday April 22 in ESB 1-39. Material covered at any time during the term is eligible for examination.

  Structure of the exam:

  • Multichoice, 16 x 0.5%
  • Short answer, 4 x 3% (choose four questions from six)
  • Interpretation of meteorological data for an observed weather scenario 10%

  Comment: course coverage differs from year to year, so not all questions from past exams would could be asked this year.

• Assignment 3 (and data as text file; data as Excel file) due Thursday 9 April 2015

• Class photo: Sean, Tyler, Samantha, Dana, Scott & Victoria.

Frequently used/updated

• Summary of lecture content and archive of weather data (etc.) used in lectures. Updated after class.

• Weather analysis/forecasting web links

Appendix

• Course Outline
• Scope of the course
• List of topics to be covered
• Exams and assignments from earlier years (and this year)
• Guidelines for class weather briefings
• Blank forecast form and blank forecast assessment form.
• Blank Skew-T chart (colour pdf)
• Blank hodograph (or as pdf)
• Blank two cycle or three cycle semilogarithmic graph paper
• Suggestions in regard to assignment writing
• Tabulation of some commonly used constants, and:
  • Equilibrium vapour pressure table over a plane surface of liquid water. Here for sub-zero temperatures the equilibrium v.p. is computed with respect to water, which is the convention used with regard to the radiosonde data.
  • Equilibrium vapour pressure table (here for sub-zero temperatures the equilibrium value is computed with respect to ice).
  • Formulae for equilibrium vapour pressure at sub-zero temperatures.
  • List of Canadian radiosonde stations

Last Modified: 23 April, 2015