|
|
Class Resources
Syllabus Schedule Words of Wisdom Meteo 5530 Homepage Meteo 5540 Homepage Weather Resources MesoWest Upper Air Satellite Radar NAM GFS Climate Resources Climate Prediction Center CDC Maproom WR Climate Center Reanalysis 6-h Data Reanalysis Hovmollers Reanalysis Composites Unisys Image/Map Archive Plymouth State Data Archive NSSL Weather Data Archive NCDC Radar Archive U-Wyoming Sounding Archive Regional Reanalysis Food for Thought "There is only one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be" - Charles Sanders Pierce "It could be important sometime in your life to follow one idea without knowing what's going to happen." - Tibetan Monk "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese" - Carl Sagan "When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, they spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, under water, on almost any surface including glass and at tmperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil" - Unknown "Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience" - Edward Abbey "[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations" - Claude Bernard "In Science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurred" - Sir William Osler "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" - Albert Szent-Gyorgi |
|
Professor Department of Meteorology University of Utah 480 INSCC/581-8727 jim.steenburgh at utah.edu Office hours: 12:05-1:00 TTh or by appointment |
|
|
Graduate Student Department of Meteorology University of Utah 806-C WBB/581-3458 zawislak at met.utah.edu Office hours: TBA |
|
|
An invitation: All individuals interested in meteorology are invited to attend weather discussions that are held as part of Meteo 5810/6810. The discussions are led by seniors and graduate students and examine recent, present, and future weather. They are held in 490 INSCC and feature computer generated animation of meteorological data and numerical forecasts with discussion of the underlying processes controling the evolution of a variety of weather phenonema. Objective: To develop your ability to apply fundamental principles of the atmospheric sciences to diagnose, understand, and predict the weather. Format: Discussions are held from 1:00-1:30 every TTh during the fall semester and every MWF during the spring semester. There are two discussion leaders. The first reviews and evaluates the analysis and forecast from the previous discussion, while the second examines recent, current, and future weather scenarios and forecast challenges, and provides a quantified forecast of the following for SLC:
Preparation: Preparation time is a significant issue in the course. Discussions start at 1:00 and you have to be ready. Nevertheless, you should skip no morning classes to prepare for map discussions. Instead begin to prepare the day before your briefing to get a handle on what you will be talking about (ideally, you should get in the habit of examining the weather on a daily basis even if you are not leading a briefing in the near future) and take advantage of scheduled prepration time between the end of Meteo 5530 and the beginning of the discussion. Grading: Credit/no credit based on attendance, participation, and your ability to apply and discuss the processes that may be contributing to recent, current, and future weather events. Ten percent of your Meteo 5530/6530 is based on participation in the discussion. ADA Accommodations: The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services, and activities for people with disabilities. If you will need accommodations in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to the Center for Disability services, 162 Olpin Union Building, 581-5020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with you and the instructor to make arrangement for accommodations. All written information in this course can be made available in alternative format with prior notification to the Center for Disability Services. |
|
| © 2004, University of Utah, All Rights Reserved |