What this class will cover (course
schedule, subject to change!):
What this class won't
cover:
Formal Programming Languages (e.g.
FORTRAN)
The room with paper (as much as possible,
"handouts" and "handins" will be electronically
submitted)
My academic and professional background
(Verbal) assessment of students' computer and
UNIX experience
Review of booting the maproom PC's and
choosing Windows or Linux
Remote access to our system (document will be emailed
to all students)
A quick look at the basic categories of meteorological data types, and where this data is stored on our system:
text data: e.g. a zone forecast, climate report, storm data report
gridded data: e.g. model output, both raw (e.g. GRIB format) and processed (e.g. GEMPAK format)
image data: e.g. NEXRAD data, satellite data
Neither (2) nor (3) can be viewed in plain-text! One must use a program such as GEMPAK/N-AWIPS or IDV to display these types of data.
Text editors: vi; emacs; gedit; nedit
Assignment of your personal METAR site, WFO site, NEXRAD site
Use of the weather program:
interactive and comand-line mode; weather
guide (full); weather
guide (quick)
Using weather for 48hr/3-5 day local forecasting contest