Severe and Hazardous Weather: Atmosphere 1010
Physical Science
This course introduced me to the fundamentals of the atmosphere. It focused on severe and hazardous weather, including its impacts on human activities and the environment. Severe weather topics were used to explore our dynamic atmosphere, including hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and snowstorms.
The learning goals of this course were to designed to teach me how to do the following tasks:
- Explain the relevance of severe and hazardous weather to human societies
- Describe the basic properties of the atmosphere and explain their values and behavior
- Differentiate between meteorological measurements and collect meteorological data
- Analyze weather maps and information, synthesize data, and formulate a weather prediction
- Interpret climate data and distinguish weather from climate
- Outline the properties of moisture in the atmosphere and apply to precipitation formation
- Model atmospheric stability and identify in meteorological data
- Diagram force balances in the atmosphere and relate to observed winds
- Identify airmasses and illustrate frontal boundaries
- Examine extratropical cyclones and appraise their human impacts
- Collect meteorological data to analyze and forecast ice storms and lake-effect snowstorms
- Discriminate the impact of mountains on snow and windstorms
- Assemble meteorological data to describe and forecast thunderstorms
- Model tornado formation and assess the human impacts of tornadoes
- Describe hail and lightning formation and justify safety guidelines
- Differentiate tropical cyclones from extratropical and evaluate storm impacts
- Analyze the accuracy of weather as depicted in popular media
- Demonstrate the relevance of weather to your future career and reflect on learning
Coursework
Weather in the Movies:
I wrote a blog post describing a weather scene in a movie. View it here:
https://jonathengreen.weebly.com/blog/weather-in-the-movies
I wrote a blog post describing a weather scene in a movie. View it here:
https://jonathengreen.weebly.com/blog/weather-in-the-movies