RADAR AND SATELLITE METEOROLOGY

ATMOCN 401

Special topics to be given as the need and opportunity arise.

ATMOCN 453

Local wind systems, thunderstorms, mesoscale convection systems, interactions with synoptic scale weather. Analysis, prediction, nowcasting and observation of mesoscale weather, including interpretation of satellite and radar information.

ATMOCN 801

Advanced level subjects in dynamics, synoptics, climate-dynamics and atmospheric physics including recent advances.

ATMOCN/ENVIRST 745

Use of satellite imagery and measurements in meteorological research and operations; orbital characteristics; navigation; instrumentation.

ATMOCN 722

Advanced treatment of the fundamentals of tropical meteorology, including moist thermodynamic processes, tropical deep convection, convective quasi-equilibrium, the weak temperature gradient approximation, the mean tropical circulations, convectively coupled waves, and tropical cyclones.