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: 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.
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Pages: 4Brief overview of the phase changes and latent heat, warmer air is less dense than cooler air, how the sun changes the atmosphere, and how temperature of air changes as it rises and sinks
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Pages: 3Brief overview of the atmosphere and pressure
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Pages: 2Brief overview of the atmosphere and climate