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Meteorology and Climate Centre
School of Mathematical Sciences
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| Title | Lecture | PPT | |
| Semester 1 | |||
| Weather Visualization System: MetVue | 1 | PPT | N/A |
| Weather Observation Plotting: Station Model I | 2 | PPT | |
| Weather Observation Plotting: Station Model II | 3 | PPT | N/A |
| Cloud Recognition | 4 | PPT | N/A |
| Introduction to Data Codes | 5 | PPT | N/A |
| The SYNOP Code | 6 | PPT | N/A |
| Basic Chart Analysis | 7 | PPT | N/A |
| Visit to Valentia Observatory | 8 | N/A | N/A |
| Meteorological Instruments | 9 | PPT | N/A |
| AWS at UCD Rosemount | 9A | PPT | N/A |
| Introduction to the Tephigram: I | 10 | PPT | |
| Introduction to the Tephigram: II | 11 | PPT | N/A |
| Tephigram Exercise (SynEx02) | 12 | N/A | |
| Tephigram Exercise: Solution Method | 13 | N/A | N/A |
| Weather Charts and Data from OGIMET | 14 | PPT | N/A |
| Scales of Atmospheric Motion | 15 | PPT | N/A |
| Airmass Theory | 16 | PPT | |
| Fronts: Norwegian Model I | 17 | PPT | N/A |
| Fronts: Norwegian Model II | 18 | PPT | N/A |
| Frontal Development I (Life Cycle) | 19 | PPT | N/A |
| Frontal Development II (Edmund Fitzgerald 1) | 20 | PPT | N/A |
| Frontal Development III (Edmund Fitzgerald 2) | 21 | PPT | N/A |
| Anticyclones. The Final Flight of JFK Jr. | 22 | PPT | N/A |
| Introduction to the Shipping Forecast | 23 | PPT | N/A |
| Semester 2 | |||
| Introduction to Long Range Forecasting | 24 | PPT | N/A |
| Locating Fronts using xcharts | 25 | PPT | N/A |
| The COMET/MetEd Training Programme | 26 | PPT | N/A |
| Probability Forecasting. | 27 | PPT | N/A |
| The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). Part 1. | 28 | PPT | N/A |
| The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). Part 2. | 29 | PPT | N/A |
| Forecast for D-Day | 30 | PPT | N/A |
| Six Nations Cup Forecast: Verification | 31 | PPT | |
| Introduction to the Thermal Wind [MSc] | 32 | PPT | |
| Applications of the Thermal Wind [MSc] | 33 | PPT | |
| Vorticity I: Kinematics of Vorticity | 34 | PPT | |
| Vorticity II: Applications of Vorticity | 35 | PPT | |
| Vorticity III: Vorticity & Vertical Motion [MSc] | 36 | PPT | |
| Weather Charts and data from WXMAPS.ORG | 37 | PPT | N/A |
| Continuity & Divergence. Dines 2-layer Model. | 38 | PPT | |
| Ageostrophic Motion. The Isallobaric Wind [MSc] | 39 | PPT | |
| Jetstreams and Cyclonic Development [MSc] | 40 | PPT | |
| Development: Latitude Effects & Surface Friction [MSc] | 41 | PPT | |
| Introduction to the SatRep Satellite Meteorology Website | 42 | PPT | N/A |
| Introduction to SatRep ONLINE [MSc] | 43 | PPT | N/A |
| Mathematical Methods: Refresher (2 lectures) | 44 | ||
| Basic Principles of Weather Radar | 45 | PPT | |
| Weather Radar: Reflectivity-Rainfall (Z-R) Relationship | 46 | PPT | |
| Dundee Satellite Receiving Station | 47 | PPT | N/A |
| Group Velocity and Rossby Wave Packets | 48 | ||
| Group Velocity: Applications (after Mel Shapiro) | 49 | PPT | |
| Frontal Structure: Dynamics of Atmospheric Fronts | 50 | ||
| Frontogenesis & Frontolysis: Development of Atmospheric Fronts | 51 | ||
| Synoptic Meteorology: a Review (after G J Hakim) | 52 | PPT | |
| Xynthia: Analysis of an Extratropical Storm | 53 | PPT | |
| Additional Presentations | |||
| 2008 Summer Rainfall in Ireland (Met Éireann Climatological Note No 11) | NN | N/A | |
| YASI: Tropical Cyclone, Queensland, February 2011 | NN | PPT | N/A |
| Fronts: Norwegian Model | 17 | PPT | |
| Frontal Depressions | 18 | PPT |