ATMO 505 ... Weather Forecasting

Course Textbook

The Textbook for this Course

Weather Analysis

authored by Dusan Djuric
published by Prentice Hall in 1994
304 pages

Topics Discussed in this Book

Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
Chapter 3:
Chapter 4:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 6:
Chapter 7:
Chapter 8:
Chapter 9:
Chapter 10:
Chapter 11:
Chapter 12:
Appendices:		 Conceptual Models of the Lower Atmosphere
Characteristics of Meteorological Observations
Patterns of Atmospheric Circulations
Kinematics
Analysis of Vertical Soundings
Thermal Properties of the Troposphere
Relation of Wind and Forces in the Atmpshere
Fronts
Air Masses and Weather
Cyclones and Anticyclones
The Upper Troposphere and Jet Streams
Mesoscale Storms
A ... List of Symbols
B ... Units Used in Meteorology
C ... Selected Equations in Dynamic Meteorology
D ... Vectors
E ... Weather Reports
F ... Enhancement of Infrared Satellite Images
G ... Geographic Maps
H ... Geometrical Properties of Vorticity and Divergence
I ... Thermal Wind and Thermal Advection
J ... Physics of Fronts
K ... Passive Fronts
L ... Calculations of Buoyant Energy
M ... Omega Equation in Terms of the Q Vector
N ... Frontogenesis

Errata

The following items in the initial printing of the text are in error:

  • page 20: The term "spectral width" should read "spectrum width" in several locations in the paragraph of the same title.

  • page 72: Equation (5-21) is not the correct equation for wet bulb potential temperature.

  • page 78: The expression for the moist adiabatic lapse rate in the left column should be 0.007 + 0.003 K m-1

  • page 84: The terms on the right-hand-side of Equation (5-31) are reversed. The equation should be:

    S = Ta500 - Tl500

  • page 166, Figure 10-1: The caption identifies (c) as a "cold high". It should be a "cold low".

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