Professor Geraint Vaughan - teaching materials
Module EART30351 Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Syllabus and module description
Lecture 1: Introduction to surface charts Summary Powerpoint slides Met Office Radar Met Office Radar network
Basic thermodynamic concepts Summary Powerpoint slides
Lecture 2: Introduction to upper-air charts Summary Powerpoint slides
Stability in the vertical Summary Powerpoint slides Lee waves 1 Lee waves 2
Lecture 3: Moisture in the atmosphere Summary Powerpoint slides SVP figures
Introduction to tephigram Powerpoint slides png of tephigram ps of tephigram More detailed tephigram
Lecture 4: Use of the tephigram Summary Powerpoint slides Met Office fact sheet on upper air observations and the tephigram
Example sheet on atmospheric thermodynamics Answers
Lecture 5: Equations of motion Summary Powerpoint slides Coriolis force
Lecture 6: Balance Equations Summary Powerpoint slides
Lecture 7: Mass continuity Summary Powerpoint slides
Lecture 8: Thermal and gradient wind Summary Powerpoint slides Example Slides Cyclone evolution from Schultz et al 1998
Example sheet on atmospheric dynamics Answers
Lecture 9: The vorticity equation Summary Powerpoint slides Derivation Potential vorticity
Lecture 10: Forcing by the jet stream Summary Powerpoint slides Rossby waves
Past papers: see EART30351 blackboard site or University Past Exams page
Useful links
Wetter3 site for GFS model and surface charts
Weatheronline wealth of weather information; check out expert charts
Metcheck Archived radar and satellite data back to 2016: click Weather and move to Archive
RP5 Surface weather data around the world
RP5 archive Archive weather data for Manchester Airport (change ICAO code for other airports)
Met Office again wealth of information on their newly-revamped site
Netweather.tv another comprehensive site for current weather and radar images
Eumetrain ePort Map Viewer plot model, satellite and radar together
ManUniCast our own model
Whitworth Observatory Our own observatory here in Manchester
Met Office weather radar European Wind Profiler Network NERC MST radar real-time measurements
Satellite pictures from SAT24.com
Skew-T radiosonde profiles from the University of Wyoming
Royal Meteorological Society Student offer
UK soundings From page by Stephen Haley
Latest Tephigram from Valentia Observatory in Ireland from Met Eireann
MeteoCentre site from U. Quebec
Ant Veal's Great Weather All the links to weather you can ever want!
Arctic Sea Ice Follow the build-up of Arctic sea ice
Free University of Berlin Stratospheric Charts (real time)
NOAA NCEP Stratospheric PV Charts (archive)
NOAA ERL Tools to access and plot archived charts and other plots
Text books and general information available on-line
Stull, Practical Meteorology: Online textbook for meteorology
Met Office factsheets - a plethora of information
Through University ebooks:
Andrews: Introduction to Atmospheric Physics
Markowski and Richardson: Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes
