In the calendar below, click on the Week to see the reading, homework, and lab assignments due that week.
| Week | Monday (D1) | Wednesday (D3) | Friday (D5) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 4Sep. Holiday |
6 Sep. (W1D3) Welcome, Meteorological Conventions, JiTT Methods & Thunderstorm Intro. |
8 Sep. (W1D5) Meteorological Variables, Basic Thermo, Standard Atmosphere & Excel Demo #1 |
| Week 2 | 11 Sep. (W2D1) Basic Thermo, Hydrostatic Relationships & Excel Demo #2. |
13
Sep. (W2D3) Thunderstorm Characteristics & Types (including Supercells) |
15
Sep. (W2D5) Thunderstorm Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS), Radar Fundamentals & Storm Chasing Tips |
| Week 3 | 18 Sep. (W3D1) Radar image interpretation |
20
Sep. (W3D3) Atmos. Radiation |
22 Sep . (W3D5) Forces acting on the air |
| Week 4 | 25
Sep. (W4D1) Hodographs |
27
Sep. (W4D3) Winds |
29 Sep. (W4D5) - Continuity & Vorticity |
| Week 5 | 2 Oct. (W5D1) - Holiday (If not a holiday, then: Tornadoes) |
4 Oct. (W5D3) Helicity, Tornadoes |
6 Oct. (W5D5) Lightning & Thunder- Part 1. |
| Week 6 | 9 Oct. (W6D1) - Holiday |
11 Oct. (W6D3) Special Class on Thursday |
13 Oct. (W6D5) Eulerian heat budget |
| Week 7 | 16 Oct. (W7D1) Hail, and Lightning & Thunder - Part 2 |
18 Oct. (W7D3) Moisture: Saturation & Variables, Diagrams |
20 Oct. (W7D5) Moisture Budgets: Lagrangian & Eulerian. |
| Week 8 | 23 Oct. (W8D1) Thermo Diagrams - Part 1: Components, Types, & Thermo State |
25 Oct. (W8D3) Thermo Diagrams - Part 2: Applications |
27 Oct. (W8D5) Soundings, Static Stability, and CAPE |
| Week 9 | 30 Oct. (W9D1) Downbursts & Gust Fronts |
1 Nov. (W9D3) Midterm Exam - In class (or if virtual due to COVID, then exam on Canvas with Zoom invigilation) (open book, open notes, open calculator.) |
3 Nov (W9D5) Global Circulation1: Description, Differential Heating; Thermal Circulations, Geostrophic Adjustment |
| Week 10 | 6 Nov. (W10D1) Cloud Identification, & General Circulation2: Thermal Wind. |
8
Nov. (W10D3) Global Circulation3: Jet Streams and Rossby Waves |
10 Nov. (W10D5) Airmasses & Fronts-1 |
| Week 11 | 13 Nov. (W11D1) - Fall Break Holiday If not a holiday, then: Satellite-Image Interpretation) |
15 Nov. (W11D3) - Fall Break Holiday (If not a holiday, then: Global Circulation3: Jet Streams and Rossby Waves) |
17
Nov. (W11D5) Satellite-Image Interpretation |
| Week 12 | 20 Nov. (W12D1) Synoptic Weather Maps, Isopleth Tutorial. |
22 Nov. (W12D3) Fronts-2 and Extratropical Cyclones 1- Characteristics & Evolution |
24 Nov. (W12D5) Extratropical Cyclones 2 - Cyclogenesis |
| Week 13 | 27
Nov. (W13D1) Cyclones3: Case-studies . |
29 Nov. (W13D3) Hurricane Characteristics, Structure & Evolution |
1
Dec. (W13D5) Hurricane Dynamics & Thermodynamics |
| Week 14 |
4
Dec. (W14D1) - last class Hurricane Models, Climatology, Hazards & Forecasting |
6 Dec. (W14D3) - last class West-coast Weather & Review |
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| . | . | Optional Review
Sessions to answer your questions about the learning
goals. (schedule tbd) |
Final Exam - (In the
final exam room.) (time to be set by UBC) (open book/laptop, open notes, open calculator.) |
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Notes:
Homeworks are always due Monday (unless it is a holiday, then
the HW is due Wed ). Late HWs will not be marked (except
during the first 2 weeks of term, when students are adding/dropping
courses). ( submit
pdf copies of your homework online via the Assignments page in Canvas.)
Online Warm-up Exercises are always due Tuesday before 10 pm, and Thursday before 10 pm. Do your reading assignments during the day and a half before each Warm-up Exercise is due.
This Fall, you will use the free iClicker Student app (previously known as iClicker REEF) on your mobile device or computer. UBC students get a free account on this iClicker Student app -- use your CWL to log into this ATSC 201 course in Canvas to get access. We use the iClicker in almost every class (regardless of whether we are physically in the classroom, or teaching remotely via Zoom due to COVID), so please bring your mobile device with iClicker-Student app to class. (We will not use the old "physical" hand-held iClicker transmitter this term.)