ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100

INTRODUCTION to
ATM OCN 100 WEATHER & CLIMATE

[EXPLORING OUR EARTH'S ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT]

Summer 1999

Lecture #1 Scheduled for:

14 JUN 1999 (M)

Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):

pages 1-16.

NOTE: This lecture continues as Observations of the Earth's Atmosphere

Today's Lecture Objectives:

To distinguish between weather and climate, citing examples of each.
To identify the present scope of meteorology.
To describe the role that various models play in scientific investigation.
To trace the development of meteorology as a science.

Outline:

A. INTRODUCTION & COURSE OBJECTIVES

See Course Syllabus

B. WHAT IS METEOROLOGY?

Derivation of Key Words - Meteorology, Weather and Climate
The Present Scope of Meteorology and the Atmospheric Sciences
Comparisons between weather and climate

C. THE HUMAN FACTOR

D. GOALS OF METEOROLOGY

Observation
Codification
Explanation
Prediction
Adaptation
Modification

E. CHARACTERISTICS OF METEOROLOGY

International
Physical
Interdisciplinary

F. BRIEF HISTORY OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

Ancient - Weather Lore
Classic Greek Meteorology (Aristotle)
Renaissance Meteorology
Meteorology in the Scientific & Industrial Revolutions
Organized weather observations
Our concept of storms
New tools and models

This Lecture continues as Weather Observations

Links to Other References:

A report on Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters 1980-1999 from National Climate Data Center (NCD
Annual Summaries of Natural Hazards Statistics for the U.S. from National Weather Service Office of Meteorology
On-line information on the History of Meteorology from the NOAA Library

Last revision 11 June 1999

Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706

hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu

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