Spring 2009

Geog. 170: Meteorology

     

                  Hurricane Katrina SSTs

 

Geography 170

Instructor: Steve LaDochy  sladoch@calstatela.edu
Office Hrs.:  KH C4061   MW 10-12; T 2-5 or by appointment

http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/sladoch/sladoch-spring05.htm

Course News-

 

Welcome to Online Meteorology.  By now you should have picked up your text and Investigations Manual and have looked at the course homepage (this one). Get into a routine of looking at the homepage each day, reading over the Daily Summary on the Datastreme Atmosphere homepage, then working on the assignments for each week. While the Datastreme Atmosphere homepage is in real-time, your assignments below have been archived and will be mostly from the fall (since our quarters begin before their semester course). Then email (preferable) or fax (323-343-6494) your work to me.

 

 

Week 8, do chapter 10 including the application sections in the lab manual.  Week 9, do Chapter 11 everything. Monday is a holiday (May 25th), but Wed will meet. Week 10, we will do the Hurricane Katrina activity and have a finals review.

 

 

1st mid-term exam (Chapters 1-3) Week4 (MW April 20 or 22)

Study Guide (click here)  and enter Login ID: csul277 (that’s an el not number 1) and password:  s09#aws. Then

go to Extras at the bottom of the page and click on Self Scoring Tests. Practice on Chapters 1-3. 

Here is another guide for Exam1: Study Guide1.

It is more general, but covers the important topics.

 

2nd mid-term exam – (Chapters 4-7) Week 8 (MW May 18 or 20)

Study Guide (click here)

 

Final exam is Mon. June 8th 1:30-4pm    ROOM CHANGED TO KH D 2074.   Good Luck!

Study Guide (click here)

 

Sample Questions-Final

Chapter 8   Chapter 9          Chapter 10         Chapter 11          Chapter 12



Course Description

    This online meteorology course looks at the changing patterns of weather and climate and the processes that are responsible for all the atmosphere’s various features.


Course Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

While the lecture portion of the course will be online, with links to readings, assignments, and resources, there will also be an on-campus lab section.  You may either take the Mon or Wed lab at 10:45-1:25 pm KH D-4045.

 

 

This Week’s Assignments

 

Wk1-CWS A

Wk1-CWS B

 

Wk1A- Answers

 

Image 1a  

Suppl Info M

Image 1b  2b

Suppl Info Tu

 

Suppl Info Th

Wk1B- Answers

Suppl Info Fri

 

Wk2-CWS A

Wk2-CWS B

 

Wk2A Answers

 

Wk2Image 1a

 

Wk2Image 2a

Wk2Image1b 

Wk2Image 2b

Wk2B Answers

 

Wk3-CWS A

Wk3 CWS B

 

Wk3A-Answers

 

Wk3-Im 1a

Suppl Info M

Wk3-2a   3a

Suppl Info Tu

Wk3-1b     2b

 

Wk3B-Answers

Suppl Info Th

 

Wk4-CWS A

Wk4-CWS B

 

Wk4A-Answers

 

Wk4-Im 1a 

Wk4-Im 2a

Wk4-Im 1b

Wk4B-Answers

 

Suppl Info M

Suppl Info Tu

Suppl Info W

Suppl Info Th  

 

Wk5-CWS A

Wk5 CWS B

 

Wk5A-Answers

 

Wk5 Im 1a

 Im 2a 

Wk5 Im 1b Im 2b

Wk5B-Answers

 

Suppl Info M

Suppl Info Tu

Suppl Info W

Suppl Info Th

 

Wk6-CWS A

Wk6-CWS B

 

Wk6A Answers

 

Wk6 Im 1a

Im 2a

Im 1b   Im 2b  2c

Wk6B Answers

 

Suppl Info M

Suppl Info Tu

 

Suppl Info Th

 

Wk7 CWS A

Wk7 CWS B

 

CWS Answers A,

 

Wk7 Im 1a

Im 2a   Im 3a

Im 1b   2b   3b

Invest. Answers ,B

 

Suppl Info Tu

Suppl Info W

Suppl Info Th

 

 

Wk8 CWS A

Wk8 CWS B

 

Wk8A Answers

 

Wk8 Im 1a

 

Im 1b   2b     3b

Wk8B Answers

 

 

Suppl Info Tu

Suppl Info W

Suppl Info Th

 

Wk9 CWS A

Wk9 CWS B

 

Wk9 A Answers

 

Wk9 Im 1a

Im 2a    Im 3a

Im 1b    2b    3b

Wk9B Answers

 

 

Suppl Info Tu

Suppl Info W

Suppl Info Th

 

Wk10 CWS A

Wk10 CWS B

 

Wk10 A Answers

 

Wk10 Im 1a

Im 2a     3a

Im 1b   2b    3b

Wk10 B Answers

 

Suppl Info M

Suppl Info Tu

Suppl Info W

Suppl Info Th

 

Wk11 CWS A

Wk11 CWS B

 

Wk11 A Answers

 

Wk11 Im 1a

Im 2a    Im3a

Im 1b    Im2b

Wk11 B Answers

 

Suppl Info M

Suppl Info Tu

Suppl Info W

Suppl Info Th

 

Wk12 CWS A

Wk12 CWS B

 

Wk12 A Answers

 

Wk12 Im 1a

Wk12 Im 2a

Wk12 Im 1b

Wk12 B Answers

 

Wk12 Supl M

Wk12 Supl Tu

Wk12 Supl W

Wk12 Supl Th

 

Wk 12-Hurr Katrina

In class exercise

Hurr Katrina Lab

Hurr K SSTs

Hurr K. Track   MAP

Saffir-Simpson Scale

 

 

Weather Resources

Surface Weather Map

24-hr Min Temperatures

24-hr Max Temperatures

24-hr Precipitation

Weekly WeatherNews

Map Symbols

 

 

US Radar map

Visible Satellite Image

IR Satellite Image

WV Satellite Image

500-mb Map

300-mb Map

Lightning Map

 

 

Other useful weather links:

 

National Weather Service-LA

American Meteorological Society-LA Chapter

California Regional Weather Server-SFSU

Datastreme Weather Project

Our Changing Planet

 

Wind animations

 

Storm Chasers:

http://www.wxchaser.com/pages/photos/2007/052207/index.html