UBC ATSC 303 - Methods in Atmospheric Science

Lab Activities & Field Trips

CAUTION: Be sure to use lab links labeled for 2025, unless otherwise instructed, or unless a 2025 document is not available.

Lab Homeworks are due 1 week after the lab meeting. Namely submit your lab reports as a pdf via Canvas assignments before the start of the next week's lab.
Here are tips on how to create better graphs, so you can earn higher grades on your Lab reports.
Here is a template (as a word.doc and as a pdf ) for writing your lab reports.
Also, don't forget to do the short Warm-up Quiz in Canvas by 10 pm Thursday, which gets you thinking ahead of time about Friday's lab.  

Labs

Week
 Topic
 Data
1

Circuits Lab (2025) as a pdf  or as a word.docx .

 

 Additional resources (2025):
Breadboard Guide
Resistor Codes (2025)
Absent Students Circuit Lab as a pdf (2025) or as a word.docx . 
2
 Thermometry lab (2025) as pdf or as a word.docx 
 Group Data: (2025)
Team1 , Team2 , Team3 , Team4 , Team5 , Team6 

3
 Data-logger lab (2025) as a pdf or as a word.docx .

 Table comparing different dataloggers .pdf (thanks to Team 3 in 2023).
 Use this 2025 Lab3Template.txt .
Group Programs and Data (2025):
  Team1 , Team2 , Team3 , Team4 , Team5 , Team6   
Each link contains a zip file with the CR1code and data.

4
 Calibration and Time Response lab (2025) as a   pdf or as a word.docx Group Programs and Data (2025):
 Teams1&4 , Teams2&5 , Teams3&6  

Tips for doing the Dynamic-response Lab.

Default data (2020) to use if your data is not working out:
GoodData1.dat
GoodData2.dat
GoodData3.dat

GoodData4.csv
GoodData5.csv
GoodData6.csv
5
 Barometry lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx .

Barometry Lab Excel Table of all Observations (2025)

Data & Info (2025):
RM Young electronic barometer: CR1000 code  and data .
 
ESB rooftop weather-station data during lab (2025)  Hint: Assume the ESB Rooftop station data is at the same elevation as our measurements.

Data from 2020 to use if your data is not working out:
lab5_rmyoung.csv
davis_wxsation.csv

6
 Hygrometry lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx .

Group Data (2025):
Team1 , Team2 , Team3 , Team4 , Team5 , Team6 

Data from 2020 to use if your data is not working out:
lab6_default1.csv
lab6_default2.csv
lab6_default3.csv
7 Precipitation lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx .

Group Data (2025):
 Team1 , Team2 , Team3 , Team4 , Team5 , Team6 

Data logger code .
8
 Anemometer Lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx .

2025 Info:
PWT_new_readings_2023 to use for the 2025 Lab .
Revised data with new column headers:
Sonic 2020 data with time headers  and
Sonic 2015 data with time headers . 

2023 Info:
"How Wind Tunnels Work" videos (Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3)
"How Sonic Anemometers Work" video .

2023 data:
Parkinson Wind Tunnel (PWT) calibration chart
Table with New Readings (for comparison)

2015 data:
Sonic data column configuration (.xlsx)
2015_sonic_1230_start.txt
Kestrel_data2015.xlsx
WindTunnelCalibration2015.xlsx

2020 (=2017) data:
The following three Pictures of the in-lab setup and chalkboard notes:
schematic_setup_1.jpg
schematic_setup_2.jpg
chalkboard_notes.jpg
Lab 8 files for the 3D sonic and kestrel:
kestrel_2020.csv
sonic_2020.csv
9
 Radiometer lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx .

2025 Group Data
 Group1 , Group 2 , Groups 3 & 5 , Groups 4 & 6 .

2023 Info
Radiometer Lab Data and Code 2023.

Old (2020) lab data:
default1_CR3000_CNR1.csv
default2_CR3000_IRR-P.csv

default3_CR3000_CNR1.csv
default4_CR3000_IRR-P.csv

default5_CR3000_CNR1.csv
default6_CR3000_IRR-P.csv

Older Whister radiation data:
Radiation data from Whistler

10 Visibility, Ceiling & Cloud Lab (2025) as pdf and word.docx .

Upper-air Lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx . 

Due to poor radiosonde-launching weather in 2025, Arduino is taught in week 10, and visibility and upper-air taught in week 11. 
2023 Info :
2023 Skew-T plot of both windsond ascents. Guest instructor was Chris Rodell. 
2023 Sonde paths in 3D: map1 , map2 , map3
CSV file with 2023 sounding data

2011 Info:
Excel file with 2011 sounding data
A blank tephigram
Definitions of: mandatory levels & significant levels

11 Arduino Microcontroller Lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx .

2023 Data:
csv file with air-quality data, collected using Arduino.  Guest Lab Instructors in 2023: Reagan McKinney & Chris Rodell.
12 Eddy-correlation and flux lab (2025) as a pdf or word.docx . Spreadsheet Data: sonic.xlsx or sonic.csv;
Whistler data: WhistlerDataAM.xlsx or WhistlerDataAM.csv
(.xlsx and .csv files contain the same data, but saved in different formats)
..
  

Field Trips