ATMO 203: STUDY GUIDE FOR TUTORIAL 19

1) Know what initial conditions are and why they are important to a weather model.

2) Know what boundary conditions are and why they are important to a weather model.

3) Understand a few of the considerations necessary when choosing a model domain (both the horizontal and vertical extent of the domain and the horizontal and vertical grid spacing).

4) Know what “iteration” means.

5) Know the difference between a prognostic and diagnostic prediction equation.

6) Know what other information a model needs to predict surface temperatures, aside from the initial and boundary conditions.

7) Know very basically (this is all that is presented in the tutorial) how the model forecasts:

a) Temperature (with wind)

b) Pressure

c) Wind

d) Moisture (and rain)