ATMO 203: STUDY GUIDE FOR
TUTORIAL 11
1) Understand what a derivative is. If you have not covered this in your math classes yet it will be explained in this class, so you do not need to find this information on your own.
2) Know the relationship between air masses and fronts and the meteorological properties of each.
3) Identify the different types of air masses (this will be covered in class, not in the tutorials).
4) Know why temperatures might not change across a front (or even warm up behind a cold front).
5) Know what advection means and where it is strongest.
6) Know how to calculate advection (this will be covered in class, not in the tutorials).
7) Understand how to use advection to make a first guess forecast and what factors may adjust this first guess.
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b) Know the meteorological factors that may alter the forecast.
c) Know the geographic factors that may alter the forecast.
d) Know the temporal (time-related) factors that may alter the forecast.
8) Understand how to use weather pattern extrapolation to make a first guess forecast and know when this method would be preferred over the advection-based method.