11:670:209 METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Pre- or co-requisite: 11:670:201 ELEMENTS OF METEOROLOGY

Text: None required.

Recommended supplemental texts:

Weather Analysis, By Dusan Djuric (Prentice Hall), 1994.

Meteorology Today, Eighth Edition, by C. Donald Ahrens (Brooks/Cole), 2006.

Professor Alan Robock, Room 225, Environmental and Natural Resources Building
Phone: 732-932-9800 x6222, E-mail: robock@envsci.rutgers.edu

TA:  Tom Collow, Room 201, Environmental and Natural Resources Building
Phone: 732-932-9800 x6402, E-mail: tcollow@eden.rutgers.edu
Office hours:  2:30-3:30 pm Mondays

Classes in Room 323, Environmental and Natural Resources Building
Monday, period 5, 3:55-5:15 p.m.

What is expected of you:

  1. Check your email every day.
  2. Read every assignment in the text before class, and come prepared to discuss it and ask questions about it.
  3. Participate in class discussions.  But be respectful of your listeners and give everyone time to talk.
  4. Listen attentively and respectfully to whomever is talking in class, be it the professor or a fellow student.  (This means no texting or web browsing.)
  5. Attend every class.  Arrive on time.  You cannot pass the course if you have an unexcused absence.
  6. Be curious.
  7. Be skeptical.  Demand evidence before you believe something.
  8. Enjoy the class, and if you are not, express your concerns and work to change things.
  9. Work three hours outside of class for every hour in a class.
  10. Many decisions are based on your values.  But be sure to be aware of your values and to state then when appropriate. 

 

Schedule

Date

Subject  (Each class will begin with a weather discussion.)

Sept. 8 WEDNESDAY

Introduction to course, Scientific method

Sept. 13

History of meteorology, How to do problems, Metric practice

Sept. 20

Atmospheric variables and their measurement:  Pressure

Sept. 27

Videoconference: Observing the weather at the Mount Washington Observatory

Oct. 4

METAR decoding and station models

Oct. 11

Visit to weather stations at Vegetable Research Farm Number 3 and Rutgers Gardens (meet there)

Oct. 18

EXAM

Oct. 25

Decoding observations and plotting a 500 mb weather map

Nov. 1

Atmospheric variables and their measurement:  Temperature

Nov. 8

Analyzing height contours and isotachs on a 500 mb weather map

Nov. 15

Analyzing isobars and fronts on a surface weather map

Nov. 29

Satellite images, how they are produced and interpretation

Dec. 6

Global warming

Dec. 13

Radar, how it works and interpreting radar images

Dec. 16

FINAL EXAM, 8 a.m. - 11 a.m.

 

Every class will include a weather discussion.

 

Course grade will be determined by:

Homework

  40%

 

Exam

  25%

 

Class participation

  10%

 

Final exam

  25%

 

TOTAL

 100%

 

Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on November 21, 2010