ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100 Lecture 3
INTRODUCTION to ATM OCN 100
WEATHER & CLIMATE
[EXPLORING OUR EARTH'S ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT]
Fall 1997
Lecture #1 Scheduled for:
3 SEP 1997 (W)
Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):
pages 1-16.
Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):
pages 1-16.
Outline:
A. WHAT IS METEOROLOGY?
- Derivation of Key Words - Weather and Climate
- The Present Scope of Meteorology and the Atmospheric Sciences
B. COURSE OBJECTIVES
C. GOALS OF METEOROLOGY
- Observation
- Codification
- Explanation
- Prediction
- Adaptation
- Modification
D. CHARACTERISTICS OF METEOROLOGY
- International
- Physical
- Interdisciplinary
E. BRIEF HISTORY OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
- Ancient - Weather Lore
- Classic Greek Meteorology
- Renaissance Meteorology
- Meteorology in the Scientific & Industrial Revolutions
- Organized weather observations
- Our concept of storms
- New tools and models
Last revision 3 September 1997
Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706
hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu