1. Syllabus
2. Contact Hours for Bob Weisman (Office Hours, Phone, etc)
3. Synoptic/Forecasting Handbook
   • Includes
     • Links to Surface and Upper-Air Station Identifiers and Locations
     • Links to Decoding METAR, Upper-Air, Synoptic Code
     • SCSU Surface Station Plotting Model featuring horrible Weisman-created graphics (EW!)
     • EAS 380 Upper Air Station Model Plotting Guide
     • Sounding Plot Guide
     • Units Conversions
     • Sources of Archived Data
4. Forecasting/Synoptic Guide
   • Includes
     • Examples of Case Studies, Lifting Mechanisms
5. The Annoying Llama Song that Shirley Plays Continuously Every Evening
6. Forecast Preparation and Game
   1. Preparation: Go to Weisman's Forecast Page
   2. Syntax: How to Enter a Forecast in the Game
7. Assignments
   0. Assignment 0: Sounding of the Day (begins Monday, Sept 14 --schedule complete)
      1. Assignment 0.1: Take Skew T Mastery Module and Quiz from MetEd (Deadline: Monday, Sept 14)
   1. Assignment 1: Smoothed Isobars Exercise (due Wednesday, Sept. 2)
   2. Assignment 2: Surface Time Series (due Friday, Sept. 11)
   3. 14-15 December 1987 Cyclone
      1. Assignment 3: Surface Analyses (due Friday, Sept. 25)
      2. Assignment 5: 850 mb Analyses (due Wednesday, Nov 18)
      3. Assignment 6: 300 K Isentropic Analysis (due Wednesday, Dec 1)
   4. Assignment 4: Practice Upper Air Analysis (due Friday, Nov 6)
   5. Assignment N: Student Forecasting Handbook (due Wednesday, November 4)
8. Class Material and Lectures
   1. August 24: Minneapolis Unforecast Tornado
   2. August 26: Smoothed Sea-Level Pressure Analysis
   3. August 28: Three-Dimensional Analysis of Fronts
   4. August 31: Mixing Depth/500 mb Patterns
   5. September 2: Hurricane Jimena
   6. September 4: Time Series/Pressure Change Signals
   7. September 9: Elevated Convection
   8. November 16: Cold-Air Damming

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