ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100

INTRODUCTION to ATM OCN 100
WEATHER & CLIMATE

[EXPLORING OUR EARTH'S ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT]

Summer 1996

Lecture Scheduled for:

17 JUN 1996 (M)

Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1994):

pages 1-13

17 JUN (M) Introduction
Weather/climate elements; surface & aloft 1-13; 18-21;
Satellites and surface weather charts 357-364
NOTE: This lecture continues as Observations of the Earth's Atmosphere

Outline:

A. WHAT IS METEOROLOGY?

  1. Derivation of Key Words
  2. The Present Scope of Meteorology and the Atmospheric Sciences

B. COURSE OBJECTIVES

C. GOALS OF METEOROLOGY

  1. Observation
  2. Codification
  3. Explanation
  4. Prediction
  5. Adaptation
  6. Modification

D. CHARACTERISTICS OF METEOROLOGY

  1. International
  2. Physical
  3. Interdisciplinary

E. BRIEF HISTORY OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

  1. Ancient - Weather Lore
  2. Classic Greek Meteorology
  3. Renaissance Meteorology
  4. Meteorology in the Scientific & Industrial Revolutions
  5. Organized weather observations
  6. Our concept of storms
  7. New tools and models
Continue as Weather Observations

Last revision 16 June 1996

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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