SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY
Computer Applications
Chapter 4 : COMET CD Module "Forecast Process"
Learning Objectives :
By the end of this learning module, the students
- should start to use the proper terminology and information in the
weather
discussion.
- should be able to describe the basic forecast process.
- should be able to examine weather from the hemispheric scale to
synoptic
scale to mesoscale scale.
- should be able to access other COMET learning modules for the
forecasters.
Assignment
2 : September 22, 2003
Learning Unit 4A
COMET CD Module : Forecast Process (Forecast Funnel)
(A) Login to the Dell PC in Microsoft Windows
environment (either NT or 2000), make sure that you have a headphone or
the speaker in ON.
(B) Click on the folder "COMET Forecast's
Library"
and then the icon "Forecast Process"
(C) Choose a 4 digit number (except 0000 and 9999)
and type in your user name. You should not use a 4 digit number
that
has been used by someone else. This 4 digit number is your userid
and will help you to start from wherever you left off last time.
(D) Study the forecast funnel (Round Table
Discussion & Explore the Forecast Funnel)
(E) Submitting Assignment :
- The answers for this assignment should be accessible via
http://hurri.kean.edu/~{your_login_name}/synoptic/assignment2.html
(if you use Save under Solaris, save as
"public_html/synoptic/assignmnet2.html")
Answer the following questions :
(1) What do you see
is the primary problem facing the operational forecaster today ?
(2) What is the Forecast Funnel and how it can help
avoid "meteorological cancer?"
(3) How is the Forecast Funnel used operationally ?
(4) What do you look for at the hemispheric scale and
how much time is spent ?
(5) What do you look for at the synoptic scale and
how much time is spent ?
(6) What do you look for at the mesoscale level and
how much time is spent ?
(7) How much effort should be expended at each level
of the Forecast Funnel ?
(8) How are the funnel levels defined both temporally
and spatially ?
(9) Why should a forecaster always begin at the top
of the funnel ?
(10) Do we ever see situations where energy is
transferred up the scales ?
(11) How do you see forecasters applying the funnel
in the future ?
- In the hemispheric scale,
(1) What questions that we should ask ?
(2) What tools do we have ?
(3) What conceptual models are useful in describing hemispheric motion ?
(1) What questions that we should ask ?
(2) What tools do we have ?
(3) What conceptual models are useful in describing synoptic scale
motion ?
(1) What questions that we should ask ?
(2) What tools do we have ?
(3) What conceptual models are useful in describing mesoscale motion ?
Assignment
3 : September 30, 2003
Learning Unit 4B
COMET CD Module : Forecast Process (Map Discussion)
Group
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Winter
Case
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Summer
Case
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One
|
Name 1 :
Name 2 :
Name 3 :
Your forecast as a group :
|
Name 1 :
Name 2 :
Name 3 :
Your forecast as a group :
|
Two
|
Name 1 :
Name 2 :
Name 3 :
Your forecast as a group :
|
Name 1 :
Name 2 :
Name 3 :
Your forecast as a group :
|
- Describe the (i) hemisphere, (ii) synoptic and (iii) mesoscale
pattern
of the case. Make sure that you state clearly what
observations
or information are used for each of the scale.
- Write down any new vocabulary or discussion that you would like
to
clarify
in the class.
COMET
COMET (Cooperative Program for
Operational Meteorology,
Education
and Training)
(A) Education Activities and Learning Modules are
available at
(B) COMET Computer-based Training Modules Titles
(include
Laser Disc, CD-ROM and Web-based modules) :
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/modules/index.htm
(C) CD Modules that are available at the
Department
:
- Forecast Process
- A convective Storm Matrix : Buoyance/Shear Dependencies
- Anticipating Convective Storm Structure and Evolution
- Satellite Meteorology : Remote Sensing Using the New GOES Imager
- Satellite Meteorology : Satellite Meteorology : Case Studies
Using GOES
Imager Data
- Satellite Meteorology : Using the GOES Sounder