1st Edition
ATMS 100: Introduction to Meteorology
School: University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign (UIUC )
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Pages: 3Brief overview of tornadoes, where/how they form, their lifeycle, types, and safetey
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Pages: 3Brief overview of supercell thunderstorms, their environments, components, and types.
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Pages: 5Brief overview of Thunderstorm Hazards: lightning, thunder, hail, and floods
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Pages: 3Brief overview of downbursts and mesoscale structure and development.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of thunderstorms, triggers, types of thunderstorms, and their development.
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Pages: 5Brief overview of lapse rates and thunderstorm development.
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Pages: 3Brief overview of hurricanes, storm surges, and different hurricanes devastations.
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Pages: 3Brief overview of hurricanes development and dissipation and their structure.
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Pages: 3Brief overview of hurricanes, their tracks, frequency, naming, and ingredients.
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Pages: 3Brief overview ENSO, El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation
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Pages: 8Brief overview of cyclogenesis, fronts, convergence and divergence, and weather forecasting.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of weather forecasting, warnings, watches, advisories, and computer models.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of mid-latitude cyclone development, convergence and divergence, and surface low and high pressure systems.
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Pages: 3Brief overview of mid-latiude cyclones, weather, and blizzards.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of air masses and the different types of fronts.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of upper-level winds, the geostrophic wind, upper-air maps, circular motion, and surface winds.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of weather maps, pressure, and constant pressure
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Pages: 4Brief overview of climate and climate change, and causes of global warming.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of cloud formation, precipitation on mountains, what clouds are made of, cloud droplets, collision and coalescence, cloud depth, supercooled water, vapor pressure, the Bergeron Process, and different precipitins
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Pages: 3Brief overview of water vapor, humidity, and the ways to measure water vapor
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Pages: 3Brief overiew of the earth's orbit, the seasons, the angle of the sun, seasonal temperatures, control of temperatures, and daily temperatures.
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Pages: 3Brief overview of radiation and the greenhouse effect.