UBC  ATSC 201 - Meteorology of Storms

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Week 11  10 - 16  Nov 2025
Monday (D1) Submit your Homework on last-week's topics before 2 pm Friday this week, due to the holidays on Monday - Wednesday.
Morning
Midday
2 PM Class: (Holiday. No class this Monday)
  1. .
Readings:
S.Ch. (none)
 Topic: Holiday - Fall Break - Monday thru Wed.

Evening Readings: 
  • S.Ch., (none)
Warm-up Questions:
(None, because of holiday) 
Topic: Fall Break - Monday thru Wed.
Tuesday (D2)
Morning
Midday
Evening
10 PM (No quiz this week). 
Wed (D3) .
Morning
Midday
2 PM No Class: (Fall break.)

Evening Readings:
  • S.Ch8.p219-224 (top 2/3), and p227-235(top paragraph).  [Namely, skip the radiative transfer eq. and weighting functions, and skip details on the sounder and sounding retrievals.]
Warm-up Questions:
(none this week, due to Fall break).
 Topic: Tutorial on Weather-Satellite Image Interpretation
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Learning Goals
At the end of this section, you should be able to:
  1. Explain how weather satellites use radiation to remotely observe the earth.
  2. Categorize the main types of weather satellites in orbit.
  3. Compare capabilities and drawbacks of each imager channel, and explain why it is advantageous to use multiple channels.
  4. Retrieve satellite images from the web and interpret them to diagnose the clouds and weather.
Thurs (D4)
Morning
Midday
Evening
10 PM (No quiz this week.)
Friday (D5) . 
Morning
Midday
2 PM Class:
  1. Discussion & interaction on topics from readings (bring your clicker).
  2. Lecture on frontal vertical structure, and on mid-troposphere (occluded) and upper-tropospheric (tropopause folds) fronts.

Evening

End-of-Week Numerical Homework Exercises.
(Due at start of Monday's class.)

Homework 11:
S.Ch8 (use spreadsheet for all):  A1g ,  A4g ,  A7g ,  A8g .

Pre-readings: S.Ch9. p267-268, 274-276, 279-281.

 Learning Goals
At the end of this section, you should be able to:
  1. Apply topics covered earlier this week to compute number answers & infer their significance. 
  2. Start reading about Weather-map analysis and Extratropical Cyclones (i.e., Lows).
Saturday(D6)
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Sunday (D7)
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