| Basic
Course |
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Advanced
Course |
| Week
1 • Basic weather analysis |
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Week
1 • Forecast methodology, piecing information together to make
a forecast. Knowing your user. Realtime verification of models. |
| Week
2 • Weather Analysis • Fronts and upper level features. |
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Week
2 • Model bias: using it to your advantage; climatology and
local effects. |
| Week
3 • Weather Analysis • Composite charts and model basics. |
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Week
3 • Rare event forecasting: severe thunderstorms, freezing rain,
high wind, heavy snow, excessive rain/flood. |
| Week
4 • Basics of satellite interpretation and analysis of the models;
Model limitations and building a forecast weather map. |
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Week
4 • Forecasting mesoscale/microscale events using models and
head knowledge; application to site•specific forecasting. |
| Week
5 • Drawing forecast maps, more on the models, thinking through
the forecast. |
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Week
5 • Continuation of week 4 material. |
| Week
6 • More forecast maps and limits of weather forecasting; Weather
forecasts • who is using them and what do they want to know. |
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Week
6 • Forecast verification, quality control, ethical questions,
Doppler radar and remote sensing. |
| Week
7 • Other model data and tools. |
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| Week
8 • Other general forecasting and parsing of data to make the
forecasts. |
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This
calendar is subject to change.
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