Lectures

Lecture Slides 

1. Overview and Circuits and Multimeters (2025)
   
2. Temperature (2025)
   
3. Data Acquisition & Data Loggers (2025)
   
4. Principles of Measurement and Instrumentation:
   
1.  Static Response (2025) and
2.  Dynamic Response (2025)
   
5. Pressure (2025)
6. Humidity (2025)
7. Precipitation (2025)
   
8. Wind Speed and Direction (2025)
   
9. Solar and Terrestrial Radiation (2025), Solar Radiation & Clouds (2023, Duan), & 10(a) Pollution-part 1 (2025)
10. (b) Air Pollutants and How to Measure Them... (2025 , Monticelli) & (c) Upper-Air Measurements (2025) 
11. (a) Visibility & Ceilings & Clouds (2025),
    (b) Running a Field Program for the 2010 Winter Olympics (Dr. Rosie Howard, 2025)
    (c) Microcontrollers for PM2.5 and wind (2025). Microcontroller (view intro resources from lab) (2023, McKinney & Rodell)
    
12. Turbulence, Fluxes and Eddy Correlation (2025)   and Eddy-correlation Derivation (2025)
    
13. Field-program Planning and Field Experiences
    
1. Dr. Chris Rodell (2020) - Forest-fire Experimental Burns in AB and NT .
   
2. Dr. Rosie Howard (2020) and (2023)  and (2025) - Whistler OTP for 2010 Winter Olympics .
   
3. Kat Pexa (2025) - Elk Valley and Weatherhood weather station deployments.  
4. Lynn Engel (2025) - Upper-air soundings during winter in the Peace River region.  
5. Prof. Roland Stull (2025) - 5 decades of airborne and field-based measurements.
   
6. (a) Running a field program (2023, Claude Labine),
14.  Summary and Overview - Last Lecture (2025) . 

Student Presentations

• Group 1 - temperature (2025) 
• Group 2 - data loggers (2025)
• Group 3 - response & errors (2025)
• Group 4 - 
• Group 5 - precipitation (2025) 
• Group 6 - wind (2025) 

Additional Guest Lectures

• Juliette Kulin, ECCC Senior Meteorologist (Feb 2023) - Meteorologist Careers with the Meteor. Serv. of Canada (MSC)

Demos

1. Temperature Demo handouts / (Slides)
2. Datalogger handouts / CR1000 Diagram
3. Humidity Demo handouts / (Slides)
4. Precipitation Demo handouts / (Slides)
5. Wind Demo handouts / (Slides)

Supporting Material for Exams

1. Equations that will be provided with midterm exam #1 (2023) and (2025) .
   
2. Equations that will be provided with midterm exam #2 (2020) , (2023) , and (2025) .
   
3. Equations that will be provided with the final exam (2023) and (2025) . 
   

Review Slides

1. Static Response and Calibration; Accuracy, Precision, and Resolution
2. Dynamic Response and Calibration
3. Fluxes and Eddy Correlation

Supporting Material for Lectures

• Week 1 - New SI system of units.  Newell, 2014: A more fundamental International System of Units.  Physics Today, 67(7), 35-41. 
  
• Week 3 - Sampling and Data Loggers
  - Interactive Excel demo download, showing aliasing (ie, folding around the Nyquist frequency) .
  - Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) 2025 as R code (and pdf of the R code), with sample input csv file ,
        and corresponding output graphs: timeseries , spectrum_n , spectrum_m  .
• Week 4a - Static Instrument Response.  -  Summary of quantile stats & box & whisker diagrams (Stull 2017).
  
• Week 4b - Dynamic Instrument Response
  - Interactive Excel demo download, showing Sensor Response to various input changes
  
• Week 7 - Output from capacitive cylindrical rain gauge
  - Interactive Excel spreadsheet download, showing response from capacitive rain gauge
• Week 12 - Reynolds Decomposition - Derivation of temperature forecast equation into mean and turbulent parts

Instrument lists, excerpted from Stull's (2017) "Practical Meteorology: An Algebra-based Survey of Atmospheric Science"

• Thermometers 
• Barometers 
• Hygrometers 
• Anemometers 
• Rain Gauges
• Radiometers 
• Errors and Error Propagation