Geography 220: Meteorology

• Class Information
  • Winter Session: January 5 - February 6, 2009
  • Location: 322 Alison Hall
  • time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm M-F
  • Text: Anderson and Strahler, Visualizing Weather and Climate 1st Edition
  • syllabus
    
  
  
• Instructor: Daria Kluver
  • Office: Pearson 227
  • email: daria@udel.edu
  • Office Hours: Directly after class and by appointment
  
  
• Announcements:
  Please bring a non-graphing calculator to class
  The last section on Climate change will not be taken from a specific
  in the text. Therefore there is no reading assignment
  Exam 3: February 6. Chapters 8,9,10,climate change...

• Some weather links:
  • Penn State department of Meteorology's electronic map wall. This site has satellite, radar, upper level maps and model output.
  • Intellicast is a good site for radar images.
  • National weather service is a good place to find watches and warnings.
  • The weather channel site has a lot of information for non-meteorologists. It also provides local forecasts.
  • The National Weather Service Forecast Office at Mt. Holly is the office that makes forecasts for our area.
  • The University of Wyoming's Department of Atmospheric Science. This site has surface data, upper air soundings, and Difax maps.
  • The Storm Prediction Center has outlooks for convection and severe weather.
  • The Unisys page on hurricanes. It offers current tracking data and satellite images, as well as archived data.
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research. Satellite, radar and surface data is available here.
  • This website belongs to one of my crazy professors from undergrad. It has a lot of really great information, especially for teaching purposes.
  • The office of the state climatatologist homepage. Our state climatologist is Dr. Legates (professor in our Geography Department). The website has information about Delaware climatology.
  • The Delaware Environmental Observing System is a series of weather stations that the University of Delaware mantains. This is a good place to get real-time local data.
  • The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center website contains data and graphs about levels of CO2 and other climate variables in the atmosphere.
  • Bad movie Physics.
  • This website has tons of info about snow crystals. Types and formation.
  • Convert to zulu time here!.
  • radar loop of Katrina here
  • IPCC 2007 summary for policymakers

Additional Information

Latitude, Longitude, and Time
Map Scale
Map Projections
Earth's Orbit
Stefan-Boltzman's Law
Wein's Law
Ozone
Wind Chill
Heat Index
Pressure
Pressure Gradiant Force
Coriolis Force
Land/ Sea Breezes
Humidity
Air Masses and Fronts
Hydrologic Cycle
WebWIMP
ENSO
"The Day After Tomorrow"