Lecture notes and kit material

Here you can find the lecture notes and all the tool that you need for the course.

Presentations

• Introduction
• Synoptic Charts
• Thermodynamic Diagrams
• Fog and Boundary Layer
• PV Perspective
• Ensemble Forecast
• Eugen Müller MeteoSwiss
• Historical Overview of Cyclogenesis
• Trajectories

Case study

See also the pdf for more information (e.g. password, groups) here.

• 12 Minutes Presentation + 3 Discussion = 15 Minutes
• Overview
• Meteorological situation (use IWAL)
• Analyse of the situation

IWAL

The Integrated Weather Analysis Laboratory (IWAL) allow you to create surface weather chart, plot cross section and much more. It is very helpful for your case study analysis.

Parameter used in IWAL:

• T              : Temperature [°C]
• RH            : Relative Humidity [%]
• U,V           : Wind Speed (x,y direction) [m/s]
• PV            : Potential vorticity [pvu]
• THE/TH     : (equivalent) potential temperature [K]
• Q             : Specific humidity [kg/kg]
• LWC/IWC : Liquid/Ice Water content [kg/kg]
• OMEGA     : vertical motion [hPa/s]
• SLP          : Sea Level Pressure [hPa]

Weather Tournament

The weather tournament is developed for students, meteorologists and automatic forecast systems (MOS). The aim of the contest is to predict the weekend weather for Zurich as accurate as possible. The forecasts will be evaluated objectively with a sophisticated verification technique.

WEEKEND weather presented by students

The weekend weather conditions are presented by the students. Follow this link to get some help.

The model results can be found here.