1st Edition
ATMOCN 100: Weather and Climate
School: University of Wisconsin, Madison (UW-Madison )
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Pages: 17Some notes from the book about what we should know for the final exam. -
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Pages: 7A lecture about mountain snowstorms and how they effect life. -
Pages: 6A lecture about lake effect storms and what types there are. -
Pages: 6A lecture about troughs and how they lead to cyclones -
Pages: 5A lecture finishing up air masses and fronts and then discussing extratropical cyclones. -
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Pages: 5A lecture continuing information about tropical cyclones. -
Pages: 5A lecture about the fundamental differences between extropical cyclones and tropical cyclones. -
Pages: 8A lecture about tropical cyclones. It describes what we call them, the intensity of them, the parts, etc. -
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Pages: 5A lecture about global warming and how it affects thermohaline circulation. Also some information about el nino. -
Pages: 7A lecture about ocean currents and how they affect the weather and climate. -
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Pages: 9A lecture with some answers for the review sheet given to us today by the professor. -
Pages: 23A study guide with notes from all the chapters and lectures for this upcoming exam. -
Pages: 9A lecture finishing up on the topic of lightning and starting on downbursts. Downbursts require high environmental lapse rates and dry air. They very much produce problems for aviation that today can be solved mostly by Doppler radars. -
Pages: 6A lecture finishing up hail with some discussion of radars capturing hail. And then a discussion about lightning. The lecture talks about where lightning occurs and a little about the electrical charge of lightning. -
Pages: 8A lecture finishing up on tornados and there frequencies. And then going into hail formation. -
Pages: 7A lecture about tornado formation mechanisms. Also some descriptions of different tornado pictures. -
Pages: 5A lot of review and some description about vorticity. Also a little beginning about why tornados form. -
Pages: 5A lecture finishing up on thunderstorms and beginning descriptions on tornados. -
Pages: 8A lecture that continues about the formation of thunderstorms. It goes into more about supercells. It also goes throughly into the details of the three stages of a formation of an ordinary 20 minute life cycle of thunderstorms.