ATMS 120: Severe and Hazardous Weather
School: University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign (UIUC )
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 5These are the notes from the first week and beginning of the second week of notes. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2This lecture went over myths and facts about lightning -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 13This exam covers optics, hurricanes, drought, flooding, and El Nino/La Nina -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4This lecture describes what an El Niño is, and how it impacts the weather around the world. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3This lecture goes over the 3 main types of flooding, and compares them -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3This lecture discusses drought, how they're formed, and the impact on the US from them -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4This lecture goes more in depth with the structure of hurricanes and what it takes to produce a hurricane -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3This lecture continues the discussion on hurricanes and goes into further detail including statistics and facts about US hurricanes, more about their tracks, and what's going on inside them. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2This lecture gives a brief introduction about hurricanes. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2This lecture gives a brief review of optics and color wavelengths, and describes what's really going on during a rainbow. -
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2This lecture reviewed different weather that occurs in different areas around fronts, and then discusses freezing rain, how it forms, and where it occurs -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3This lecture explains the Coriolis effect and talks about jet streams in relationship to pressure and temperature, and how all of these components intertwine -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Finishing up lecture notes on radars and how to interpret them, and then an introduction on extra-tropical cyclones -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3This is an introduction to radar, what it's used for, and how it works -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2This lecture describes different types of satellite channels, what they're primarily used for, and how to interpret their pictures -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2Understanding relative terms to air moisutre and the calculations that are associated with it. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2This lecture discusses the importance of water's phase changes and the energy associated with it, as well as vapor pressure in the atmosphere and the properties that go along with it -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2This lecture discusses atmospheric pressure, gives an insight to how barometers work, and relates pressure to trends in weather -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Explanation as to what causes temperature variations on the earth, and also an introduction to seasons -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2A brief overview of the atmosphere and its components, as well as an introduction to temperature and a brief explanation of the relationship between temperature and density