
Explore the fundamentals of meteorology, including atmospheric motion, fronts, and clouds, and learn observational methods, forecasting techniques, numerical weather prediction, climate and agriculture.
Learn to read wind barbs, determine wind direction and speed in knots, and explore relative humidity, temperature, dew point, precipitation, visibility, clouds, fronts, and pressure.
Explore how the Coriolis force from Earth's rotation deflects air to form Hadley, Ferrel, and polar cells, shaping desert belts at 30° latitude, doldrums, and precipitation.
Explore warm, cold, stationary, and occluded fronts and their cloud associations. See how warm air moves toward cold air, while cold fronts move faster and catch up.
Explore cloud types classified by altitude prefixes cirro, alto, and no prefix, and by appearance—stratus, cumulus, altocumulus, cirrocumulus, altostratus, cirrostratus, nimbostratus, cumulonimbus—and learn their associations with warm and cold fronts.
Compare manual thermometers in shaded boxes and hygrographs with automated weather stations. Learn how temperature and humidity sensors, rain gauges, wind sensors, and sunshine duration measurements stream data to meteorologists.
Analyze pressure height maps from 1000 mb to 300 mb to reveal air masses, frontal movements, and vertical structures. Incorporate temperature, humidity, wind maps, radar and satellite imagery, Skew-T diagrams.
Review key meteorology terms, cloud types, observation methods, equipment, forecasting methods, and numerical weather prediction, and explore the maps meteorologists use to predict weather.
Ever wondered how forecasters on the TV predict the weather? Do you want to learn the magic behind it? Do you want to be prepared everywhere you go and never get wet on a picnic day? This short crash course will give you the basic informations that you need to conduct a weather forecast as well as give you some insights how meteorologists do the forecastings. We will work our way into many different meteorlogical concepts necessary for understanding the weather. In this course you will learn everything about weather prediction and meteorology from scratch. No prior experience required.
Course content is like this;
•Basic definitions of the most common terms used in meteorology including temperature, felt-air temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, dew-point, precipitation, visibility, vertical stucture, cloudiness, fronts and humidity
•Atmospheric motion
•Fronts
•Cloud Types
•Meteorological observations and what equipments are used
•Methods of forecasting
•Numerical Weather Prediction
•Types of maps that meteorologists use to predict weather
Each lecture will cover an important subject for weather forecasting, without lingering too long on any one subject. Lectures are generally 1 - 10 minutes in length. You will also be given the opportunity to see how much you have learned by taking a short quiz.
I created this course on 5 years meteorological education experience and after this class you will be ready to do your own predictions.