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 | 2 Sep. Holiday |
4 Sep. (W1D3) Welcome, Meteorological Conventions, JiTT Methods & Thunderstorm Intro. |
6 Sep. (W1D5) Meteorological Variables, Basic Thermo, Standard Atmosphere & Excel Demo #1 |
| Week 2 | 9 Sep. (W2D1) Basic Thermo, Hydrostatic Relationships & Excel Demo #2. Thunderstorm Intro. |
11
Sep. (W2D3) Thunderstorm Characteristics , Types , Cells, Associated Clouds |
13
Sep. (W2D5) Thunderstorm Supercells, Derecho & Storm Chasing Tips |
| Week 3 | 16 Sep. (W3D1) Radar image interpretation |
18
Sep. (W3D3) Atmos. Radiation |
20 Sep . (W3D5) Forces acting on the air |
| Week 4 | 23
Sep. (W4D1) Hodographs |
25
Sep. (W4D3) Horizontal Winds |
27 Sep. (W4D5) - Vertical Winds, Continuity & Vorticity |
| Week 5 | 30 Sep. (W5D1) - Holiday |
2 Oct. (W5D3) Helicity, Tornadoes |
4 Oct. (W5D5) Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS), Heavy Rain, Hail. |
| Week 6 | 7 Oct. (W6D1) Videos on Tornadoes, Lightning & Thunder, Hail |
9 Oct. (W6D3) |
11 Oct. (W6D5) Eulerian heat budget |
| Week 7 | 14 Oct. (W7D1) - Holiday |
16 Oct. (W7D3) Moisture: Saturation & Variables, Diagrams |
18 Oct. (W7D5) Moisture Budgets: Lagrangian & Eulerian. |
| Week 8 | 21 Oct. (W8D1) Thermo Diagrams - Part 1: Components, Types, & Thermo State |
23 Oct. (W8D3) Thermo Diagrams - Part 2: Applications |
25 Oct. (W8D5) Soundings, Static Stability, and CAPE |
| Week 9 | 28 Oct. (W9D1) Downbursts & Gust Fronts |
30 Oct. (W9D3) Midterm Exam - In class. (open book, open notes, open calculator.) |
1 Nov (W9D5) Cloud Identification, |
| Week 10 | 4 Nov. (W10D1) Global Circulation -part 1: Description, Differential Heating; Thermal Circulations, Geostrophic Adjustment |
6Nov. (W10D3) Global Circulation - part 2: Thermal Wind Effect, Jet Streams and Rossby Waves |
8 Nov. (W10D5) Airmasses & Fronts- Part 1: Horizontal Structure & Evolution |
| Week 11 | 11 Nov. (W11D1) - Fall Break Holiday |
13 Nov. (W11D3) - Fall Break Holiday |
15 Nov. (W11D5) Satellite-Image Interpretation |
| Week 12 | 18 Nov. (W12D1) Synoptic Weather Maps, Isopleth Tutorial. |
20 Nov. (W12D3) Fronts-part 2: Vertical Structure |
22 Nov. (W12D5) Extratropical Cyclones: Characteristics & Evolution |
| Week 13 | 25Nov. (W13D1) Extratropical Cyclogenesis: Mountain Lee and Continuity (Rossby wave) Effects |
27 Nov. (W13D3) Extratropical Cyclogenesis: Jet Streaks and Thermodynamic Effects |
29 Nov. (W13D5) Hurricane Characteristics, Structure & Evolution |
| Week 14 |
2 Dec. (W14D1) -Hurricane Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Models |
4 Dec. (W14D3) - Hurricane Climatology, Hazards and Forecasting | 6 Dec. (W14D5) - last class West-coast Weather & Review |
| . | . | 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.)