Study Guides
Study Guide for the Final Exam
- yellow was covered in the midterm, and is testable, but is not the focus of the Final exam.
- pink was covered but will not be tested
- green is the focus of the Final Exam.
Course Goals By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Enjoy the beauty and power of storms without fear. (Affective)
- Describe the characteristics and evolution of: (Cognitive)
- thunderstorms, including:
- lightning, thunder, tornadoes,
- hail, rain, downbursts, gust fronts
- mid-latitude cyclones (lows, fronts, air masses)
- hurricanes
- general circulation (global climate, jet streams, Rossby waves)
- Use the following meteorological tools skillfully to diagnose the atmospheric condition: (Psychomotor)
- radar images
- satellite images
- weather maps
- thermo diagrams (for temperature soundings & stability)
- hodographs (for wind soundings)
- METARs (weather reports)
- Excel (for calculations and graphs)
- Forecast your local weather by looking at the sky, identifying the clouds, and using the meteorological tools. (Psychomotor)
- Explain the role of dynamics (forces and winds) and thermodynamics (heat and moisture) in atmospheric processes and phenomena. (Cognitive)
- Relate atmospheric phenomena to the equations that describe them. (Cognitive)
- Reliably compute numerical answers in the face of missing data and mismatched units, and to qualitatively interpret the result. (Psychomotor & Cognitive)
- Defend
and criticize meteorological issues (such as why perfect forecast skill
is impossible for a chaotic fluid like the atmosphere). (Cognitive) .
Study Guide for the Midterm Exam
- yellow is testable
- pink was covered but will not be tested
Course Goals By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Enjoy the beauty and power of storms without fear. (Affective)
- Describe the characteristics and evolution of: (Cognitive)
- thunderstorms, including:
- lightning, thunder, tornadoes,
- hail, rain, downbursts, gust fronts
- mid-latitude cyclones (lows, fronts, air masses)
- hurricanes
- general circulation (global climate, jet streams, Rossby waves)
- Use the following meteorological tools skillfully to diagnose the atmospheric condition: (Psychomotor)
- radar images
- satellite images
- weather maps
- thermo diagrams (for temperature soundings & stability)
- hodographs (for wind soundings)
- METARs (weather reports)
- Excel (for calculations and graphs)
- Forecast your local weather by looking at the sky, identifying the clouds, and using the meteorological tools. (Psychomotor)
- Explain the role of dynamics (forces and winds) and thermodynamics (heat and moisture) in atmospheric processes and phenomena. (Cognitive)
- Relate atmospheric phenomena to the equations that describe them. (Cognitive)
- Reliably compute numerical answers in the face of missing data and mismatched units, and to qualitatively interpret the result. (Psychomotor & Cognitive)
- Defend
and criticize meteorological issues (such as why perfect forecast skill
is impossible for a chaotic fluid like the atmosphere). (Cognitive) .
Lecture Goals
Use the Learning Goals link from the Home Page to find a table of the learning goals for each lecture period.
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/atsc201
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