The ATMO 203 Class Page

Instructor and Course Information:

Larry Hopper
Office: O&M 1011
Office hours: Wednesdays from 3:00-5:00pm and by scheduled appointment

Spring 2010 Syllabus
Spring 2010 Course Schedule
Tuesday & Thursday, 9:35-10:25 a.m (O&M 1201)

Annoucements:
-Quiz 5 will be held at the beginning of class on Thursday, April 29th. You may bring a 3 by 5 or 4 by 6 notecard to the quiz.
Remember that your grade on Quiz 5 will also replace your lowest quiz score for the semester.
-Your Career Paper is due on Thursday, April 29th by 3pm.
-Lab 7 on sounding diagrams is due on Thursday, April 29th by 3pm.

Current Forecasting City and Data Page:
Amarillo, TX (AMA) from April 5th-23rd
Forecasts are due on Mon., Tues., Thurs., and Fri. for the following day by 7pm local time (0000 UTC).
We are not forecasting on Wednesday (for Thursday 1am-Friday 1am) for this city.

       

Enter WxChallenge Forecast

Check WxChallenge Standings

Weather Challenge Home Page

Three helpful links:
Real-Time weather and model data page provided by NCAR
Current Model Output Statistics (MOS) page provided by the NWS
Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

 




Current Weather:



 

Radar

Satellite

Surface

Profiler

Soundings

UA Charts

 

 

 

Model Forecasts:


**Note: North American Model (NAM) has been upgraded to the WRF-NMM from the old ETA model. A few sites have old ETA links, but these links will take you to WRF-NMM model data. We will discuss this change briefly during class, but feel free to ask me questions if you have any.**

 

 

 

Finding/Interpreting Data:

 

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