Announcements

• Final exam, and Final exam with answers.

• The final exam takes place Monday 24 April, 0900 to 1130, and will be an OPEN BOOK test. Please bear in mind that the course coverage differs from year to year, meaning that some questions from previous exams could not be asked this year. There will be 20 multi-choice questions (value 20%) and two weather map interpretation questions (2 x 5%). As noted on the Course Outline, you will have 2.5 hours to complete the exam (the University Calendar is unable to accommodate anything less than whole hours, and wrongly states the exam duration as 2 hours).

• Assignment 3 (and data as text file or as Excel file). Assignment 3 is due Tues. 11 April.

• Student weather briefings (see hints below) will take place: Tues 28 March (Karen); Thurs 30 March (Lisong); Tues 4 April (Sarah); Thurs 6 April (Zheqi); Tues 11 April (Andrew)

• Review: propogation of uncertainty in calculations.

• Class photo: Lisong, Andrew, Sarah, Karen (Ka Ki), Zheqi

• Old announcements

Frequently used/updated

• Summary of lecture content. Updated after class.

• Weather analysis/forecasting web links

Appendix

• Course Outline
• Scope of the course
• List of topics to be covered
• Lackmann: Synoptic_Meteorology (a useful textbook, as PDF)
• Exams from earlier years (and this year)
• Guidelines for class weather briefings
• Blank forecast form and blank forecast assessment form.
• Blank Skew-T chart (with mixing ratio scale; families of curves identified)
• Blank hodograph (or as pdf)
• Suggestions in regard to assignment writing
• Equilibrium vapour pressure (Goff-Gratch formulation):
  • sub freezing (equilib. v.p. wrt plane surface of liquid water, which is the convention used by EC with regard to the radiosonde data)
  • sub freezing (equilib. v.p. wrt plane surface of ice)
  • above freezing
• List of Canadian radiosonde stations

Last Modified: 24 Apr., 2017