Map and Chart Analysis

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Map and Chart Analysis

• EASA-211-01
• Spring 2005

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Monday and Friday 1200 200 pm

• Adam Pasch
• Office Macelwane 335
• Office Hours Wednesday 12-300 pm or by
  appointment.
• paschan_at_eas.slu.edu
• Phone [phone]
• Phone [phone] (leave a message)
• Required Text
• Lutgens and Tarbuck, The Atmosphere, 9th Edition,
  2004
• Required Supplies
• Colored Pencils (red, blue, black, green, purple,
  yellow, brown)
• Recommend
• Three ring binder or a folder for homework, notes
  and handouts.

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Grading System and Scale
Any work turned in late will lose 7 per
school day THERE IS NO CURVE IN THIS CLASS

• Exam 1 15
• Exam 2 15
• Exam 3 (non-comprehensive final) 15
• Three Quizzes 15
• Homework and Labs 40
• Scale
• 100-90 A
• 89-86 B
• 85-80 B
• 79-76 C
• 75-70 C
• 69-60 D
• 59-00 F

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Policies

• Disabilities
• Any student with a physical or mental disability
  is expected to make this known to the lecturer as
  soon as possible.
• Plagiarism and Cheating
• Saint Louis University has a clear policy of
  discouraging and punishing cases where students
  have been found to be cheating on assignments and
  exams. Plagiarism, or the un-referenced use or
  quotation of material not originating from the
  student author, is likewise a punishable offense.

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Class Structure

• Lecture
• Short break
• Weather Discussions
• Labs or In-class exercises
• Forecasting contest??
• Would be simple temperature (high and low) and
  precipitation category.

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Note card Paper

• Name
• Home town
• Year in school
• SLU email address
• More frequent email (if not SLU)
• What you hope to learn
• Meteorological interest
• A weather related question that you have.

• Name
• Your SLU email without the _at_slu.edu.
• This will be your username on the computers.

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Lecture Notes

• Power Point Presentations
• Outlines of material to be discussed in class.
• Available on the internet
• http//www.eas.slu.edu/People/Students/paschan/EAS
  211/mapandchart.html
• Calendar of what is discussed each day in the
  class along with the test schedule.
• Other links of interest.
• Required prior to each class
• Print outline so that you can follow along in
  class.
• Bring colored pencils everyday.

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Handouts

• Career Guide
• http//www.ametsoc.org/atmoscareers/index.html
• Meteorology Links
• http//www.eas.slu.edu/Weather
• http//www.eas.slu.edu/People/Students/paschan/EAS
  211/links.html
• Conversion Tables
• http//www.jhuapl.edu/weather/education/conversion
  .html
• http//www.theweatherprediction.com/basic/isopleth
  s/
• Appendix A in Book
• http//www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm

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Geography Refresher

• Geography Refresher
• http//www.50states.com/tools/usamap.htm

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Answer
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Station Plots

• Station Plots
• http//www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/stationplot.html
  
• Appendix B in Book

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Station Plots
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Station Plot Tables (Appendix B 476482)
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http//www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/sfc/namccsfc18wbg.gif
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In-Class Exercise

• Station Plots

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Number 1

• Temp 55
• Dew point 37
• Current weather mod. rain
• Pressure 1013.8
• Pressure tendency rising
• Cloud cover scattered
• Wind SW 18-22 knots

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Number 2

• Temp 75
• Dew point 23
• Current weather NA
• Pressure 1000.3
• Pressure tendency steady
• Cloud cover clear
• Wind N 8-12 knots

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Number 3

• Temp 24
• Dew point 23
• Current weather mod. snow
• Pressure 997.9
• Pressure tendency falling
• Cloud cover overcast
• Wind NW 38-42 knots

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Number 4

• Temp 95
• Dew point 87
• Current weather slight or mod. thunderstorm with
  rain.
• Pressure 1010.3
• Pressure tendency steady
• Cloud cover overcast
• Wind SE 18-22 knots

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Number 5

• Temp 63
• Dew point 62
• Current weather fog
• Pressure 1007.8
• Pressure tendency falling
• Cloud cover overcast
• Wind Calm

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Number 6

• Temp 31
• Dew point 31
• Current weather freezing rain
• Pressure 1000.3
• Pressure tendency falling
• Cloud cover overcast
• Wind SE 18-22 knots

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Number 7

• Temp 71
• Dew point 70
• Current weather mod. drizzle
• Pressure 1001.1
• Pressure tendency falling
• Cloud cover overcast
• Wind E 8-12 knots

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Number 8

• Temp 85
• Dew point 57
• Current weather NA
• Pressure 1003.8
• Pressure tendency rising then steady
• Cloud cover 7 or 8 tenths
• Winds SW 12-18 knots

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Number 9

• Temp 55
• Dew point 47
• Current weather lightning seen but no thunder
  heard
• Pressure 999.8
• Pressure tendency steady then rising
• Cloud cover 5/10 or broken
• Winds S 18 24 knots