Lectures

Lecture Slides 

1. Overview and Circuits and Multimeters (2023)
   
2. Temperature (2023)
   
3. Data Acquisition (2023)
   
4. Principles of Measurement and Instrumentation:
   
1.  Static Response (2023) and
2.  Dynamic Response (2023)
   
5. Pressure (2023)
6. Humidity (2023)
7. Precipitation (2023)
   
8. Wind Speed and Direction (2023)
   
9. Solar and Terrestrial Radiation (2023), Solar Radiation & Clouds (2023, Duan), & Pollution-part 1 (2023)
10. (a) Visibility & Ceilings (2023), (b) Air Pollutants & How to Measure Them... (2023, Monticelli) & (c) Upper-Air Measurements 
    
11. (a) Running a field program (2023, Claude Labine), (b) Visibility, Clouds (2023 continued) & Drones, (c) Microcontroller Lab (2023, McKinney & Rodell)
12. Turbulence, Fluxes and Eddy Correlation (2023)
    
13. Field-program Planning and Field Experiences
    
1. Mr. Chris Rodell (2020) - Forest-fire Experimental Burns in AB and NT .
   
2. Dr. Rosie Howard (2020) and (2023) - Whistler OTP for 2010 Winter Olympics .
   
3. Prof. Roland Stull - Airborne and field-based measurements  .
   

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

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) .
• 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