PHYS 301-Meteorology Class Information

Radford University

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Information for PHYS (PHSC) 301, Fall 2007

Class Information, etc.

The PHYS (PHSC) 301 class information sheet that I handed out the first day of class.
Text: Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment, Ninth Edition by C. Donald Ahrens.
Lecture notes in pdf form

Other items related to this class

Today's NOAA forecast
National Weather Service Hydrometeorological Prediction Center's Daily Weather Map, which includes such things as the sea level pressure isobars and the 500-mb height contours. The HPC main page has the link to the "Today's Forecast" linked above.
Jeff Haby's The Weather Prediction.com site. This is a great reference for all things meteorology.
Station model plots: These are the maps that have the weather station symbols on it:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/sfc2.shtml
-http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/stationplot.shtml (good description of symbols)
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/regional.html (good description of symbols)
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/content/surfacemaps.html
WeatherImages.org The name says it all.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
NASA's Earth Observatory page, including their Natural Hazards page.
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
Explore with maps at Maps.com, including a very useful World Time Zone Map
XPeditions at National Geographic
Contour analysis at the WeatherWise page of the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Announcements:

This is the web page that will be maintained for PHYS (PHSC) 301, Meteorology, throughout the semester. Lecture homework assignments will be posted here throughout the course. In addition, the links at the top of this page contain information about the class itself, all of which are handed out in hardcopy the first day of class.
Reminder about grades: If you find that anything has been recorded in error, bring the graded paper to me and I will fix it. If you do not have the graded paper, I will not change what I have recorded for you. This means you need to keep your work throughout the semester.

Go back to Dr. Herman's homepage.