ATMO 203: STUDY GUIDE FOR TUTORIAL 21

1) Know what types of analysis errors occur. Know what accuracy can be expected and what it means for an observation to be “representative”.

2) Know by rule of thumb about how large a process needs to be to be accurately simulated by a weather model.

3) Know what parameterization means and be able to name several processes that need to be parameterized in a weather model.

4) Be able to identify two possible sources of error in the lower boundary conditions of a model.

5) Know how to assess errors in the model analysis.

6) Know how to assess errors in the short term model forecasts.

7) Know what types of errors occur and how these two types of errors can be corrected for.

8) In summary, know what can cause errors in the models.