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seer Group Leader: Prof. Steven Businger

MET 101: INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE

Syllabus


Lecture Notes (pdf format)


Lecture 1 Atmospheric Science
Lecture 2 Temperature, Pressure, Heat and Weather Maps
Lecture 3 Radiation and Earth's Radiation Balance
Lecture 4 Seasons and Diurnal Cycle
Lecture 5 Water
Lecture 6 Water in the Atmosphere
Lecture 7 Cloud Formation - Droplets
Lecture 8 Cloud Forms
Lecture 9 Stability and Latent Heat
Lecture 10 Precipitation
Lecture 11 Forces and Wind
Lecture 12 Local Winds
Lecture 13 Global Winds
Lecture 14 El Niño
Lecture 15 Optics I
Lecture 16 Optics II
Lecture 17 Hurricane Structure
Lecture 18 Hurricane Impacts and Forecasting
Lecture 19 Air masses and Fronts
Lecture 20 Evolution and Impact of Winter Storms
Lecture 21 Wind Storms and Weather Forecasting
Lecture 22 Heavy Rain and Flooding in Hawai`i
Lecture 23 Ocean and Wind Hazards
Lecture 24 Air Mass Thunderstorms and Lightning
Lecture 24.5 Simple Science of Flight
Lecture 25 Severe Weather
Lecture 26 Air Pollution
Lecture 27 Past Climate
Lecture 28 The Human Factor


I have added password protection to gain access to my lectures and hand-outs. Some of the materials are proprietary.
Please email me for the username and password.
Professor Businger


Homework


Homework 1 Weather Awareness Assignment due: 5 November 2019
Homework 2 due: 19 September 2019
Homework 3 Due: 17 October 2019
Homework 4 Due: 19 November 2019

Sample quizzes (pdf format)

Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Quiz 3
Quiz 4


Photo gallery 1
Photo gallery 2


Access to updated weather and ocean data and imagery is available via the UH Meteorology weather server at http://weather.hawaii.edu.

Honolulu National Weather Service.

Central Pacific Hurricane Center.

National Hurricane Center (East Pacific).

Hawaii surf forecast.

Examples of my time-lapse videos of the atmosphere and clouds

The following link has posts that describe a range of interesting weather related phenomena around the Hawaii Islands.




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This page last updated August 2017 by Lacey Holland.


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