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| Syllabus and module description | Timetable | Geraint's web page |
| Practical Meteorology (Stull) | University Podcast service | |
| References for Paul's part | List of Symbols |
| Lecture 1: | Basic thermodynamic concepts | |||
| Lecture 2: | Aerosol particles and Kelvin's equation | |||
| Lecture 3: | Growth of droplets | |||
| Lecture 4: | Size distributions / geoengineering earth's climate | |||
| Lecture 5: | Ice nucleation |
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| Lecture 6: | Ice crystals | |||
| Lecture 7: | Supersaturation in clouds 1 | Experiment showing Bergeron-Findeison process.
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Thunderstorm in Australia
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| Lecture 8: | Supersaturation in clouds 2 | |||
| Lecture 9: | Precipitation processes |
Rain drop break-up
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Shape of a rain-drop
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Tank experiment (courtesy of Dr Westbrook, Reading)
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| Lecture 10: | Practice questions |
Drop thruster!
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Just for fun: notes on a shallow water model able to simulate various atmospheric phenomena.
Please note, I will update the slides as I go along with the lastest findings from my research.
Global surface winds updated 3 hourly.
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Global winds @500 hPa updated 3 hourly.
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| Manchester Ice Cloud Chamber | Our cloud chamber for conducting research into cloud processes |
| Wetter3 | site for GFS model and surface charts |
| Weatheronline | wealth of weather information; check out expert charts |
| Met Office | again wealth of information on their newly-revamped site |
| Met Office weather radar | |
| European Wind Profiler Network | |
| NERC MST radar real-time measurements | |
| Netweather.tv | another comprehensive site for current weather |
| ManUniCast | our own model |
| Whitworth Observatory | Our own observatory here in Manchester |
| EUMETRAIN | overlay met. fields on satellite images (via eport) |
| Satellite pictures | from SAT24.com |
| Skew-T radiosonde profiles | from the University of Wyoming |
| Latest Tephigram from Valentia Observatory in Ireland | from Met Eireann |
| Chilbolton doppler radar | Real-time measurements |
| Eric Snodgrass webpage | Useful information on Mid-latitude cyclones |
| Slides from the 2013 INUIT Summer School |
The capacitance of ice crystals use a Monte-Carlo method to estimate the capacitance of realistic ice crystals
Diffusion of material through an aerosol particle Fick's law does not describe diffusion of some compounds, the Maxwell-Stefan theory does. Investigate the effects this has in this project.
Automated classification of ice crystal images There is a wealth of ice crystal image data that we have taken on various field projects. Devise a method of automatically determining their shape in this project
Saturn's hexagon write a shallow water model in polar coordinates to attempt to simulate Saturn's hexagon: a planetary-scale wave that has the appearance of a regular hexagon.
A simulation of the solar system in MATLAB use accurate ODE solvers to simulate dynamics of planetary orbits
Gravitational field strengths Calculate the gravitational field strength of different shaped objects
Gaussian Plume Model in MATLAB Understand how vertical stability affects the dispersion of pollution from a stack.