Elementary Meteorology Online
Chapter 2a - Weather Data

This chapter will describe the various sources of atmospheric surface data and how it used to provide information about synoptic weather conditions (conditions at one time).

Course readings

The following readings will form the basis of quizzes and investigations in this chapter.

Text reading

  • Chapter 13 Weather analysis and forecasting pp. 263-272 (Acquisition of weather data/Data assimilation, depiction, and analysis)

    Reading weather maps

  • WW2010
  • LSC: Finding and reading local data

    Weather stations

  • ASOS: Introduction to automated weather stations.
  • Rawinsondes:Weather balloons launched every 12 hours.
  • LSC weather station: Tutorial introducing the weather instruments outside the Vail parking lot.
  • LSC weather station data: An archive of LSC weather data. You can view minute by minute weather data for any date up to present by choosing "HTML formatted" or a summary of daily weather data by choosing "Summary" and hitting "Submit" button.
  • ASOS - Sable Island*
  • Rawinsondes launch - Sable Island*
    • *Optional

    Useful links

    MET1010 Weather page

    A weather page for this course is set up here, This page is unders copnstruction and will be revised as the course progresses.

    Weather Blogs

    Prof WW's weblog will track significant weather events affecting the LSC area as well as major weather events elsewhere.

    National Weather Service

    The weatherpage offers links from the following National Weather Service forecasting centers.
  • National centers for Environmental Prediction
  • Local weather offices