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Meteorology 2603
Severe and Unusual Weather
Instructor: Professor Kelvin K. Droegemeier
Grader: Mr. Andrew Reader
Photographs © Todd Lindley
Spring Semester, 2001
MWF from 1:30 to 2:20 pm
Room 150, Adams Hall
This course serves as a General Education Core II Natural Science Elective
and is intended for non-majors.
ACADEMIC
MISCONDUCT
Exam Schedule and Policy
Important Dates to Remember
CourseNet
WebCT
Other Helpful Links Including Weather Sites
First Day Introductory
Materials
Course Road Map
Dr. Gallagher's Lecture Materials for METR 2603
Lecture 1 (1/19/01): Clouds and Airmass Thunderstorms
Lecture 2 (1/22/01): Clouds and Airmass Thunderstorms (Cont'd)
Lecture 3 (1/24/01): Ideal Gas Law, Pressure Changes, and Applications
Lecture 4 (1/26/01):
Units for Pressure/Density/Temperature; Application of
Ideal Gas Law
Lecture 6 (1/31/01):
Energy, Heat, and Radiation
Lecture 7 (2/2/01): Moisture in the Atmosphere
Lecture 8 (2/5/01): Moisture in the Atmosphere
(Continued); Latent and Sensible Heating
Lecture 9 (2/7/01): Latent and Sensible Heating;
Atmospheric Stability
Lecture 10 (2/9/01):
Atmospheric Stability (Continued) and its Applications; Thunderstorm
Development
Lecture 11 (2/12/01): Video on Tornadoes and Atmospheric Stability
Lecture 12 (2/14/01): Guest Lecture on Storm Intercept, by Dr. Charles Doswell III,
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
Lecture 13 (2/16/01): Guest Lecture on NEXRAD Doppler Radar and Storm Detection, by
Ms. Jamie Boettcher, NEXRAD Radar Operations Center
EXAM #1 STUDY GUIDE - PLEASE READ THIS PRIOR TO THE MONDAY
REVIEW / LECTURE MAKE-UP SESSION
Lecture 14 (2/19/01): Severe Thunderstorms
Exam #1 (2/21/01) and Solutions to Version
0 and Version 1
Lecture 15 (2/23/01): Severe Thunderstorm
(Continued)
Problem Set #2
Lecture 16 (2/26/01): Severe
Thunderstorms/Supercells (Continued)
Lecture 17 (2/28/01): Supercell Storms (Continued) and Tornadoes
Lecture 18 (3/2/01): Supercell Storms and Tornadoes (Continued)
Lecture 19 (3/5/01): Supercell Storms and Tornadoes (Continued)
Lecture 20 (3/7/01): Tornadoes, Climatology, Non-Supercell Tornadoes, Hodographs
Lecture 21 (3/9/01): OU Doppler on Wheels; Wind Hodographs
Lecture 22 (3/12/01): Wind Hodographs, Helicity, Streamwise Vorticity
Lecture 23 (3/14/01): Wind Hodographs, Helicity, Streamwise Vorticity (Continued)
Lecture 24 (3/26/01): Wind Hodographs, Helicity, Streamwise Vorticity, BRN (Continued)
Lecture 25 (3/28/01): Thermodynamic Diagrams
Lecture 26 (3/30/01): Thermodynamic Diagrams (Continued)
Lecture 27 (4/2/01): Thermodynamic Diagrams (Continued)
Lecture 28 (4/4/01): Thunderstorm Forecasting with Thermodynamic Diagrams
Lecture 29 (4/6/01): Lightning
EXAM #2 STUDY GUIDE - PLEASE READ THIS PRIOR TO THE MONDAY REVIEW/LECTURE MAKE-UP SESSION
Lecture 30 (4/9/01): Lightning
EXAM #2 (4/11/01)
Lecture 32 (4/16/01): The Dryline
Lecture 33 (4/18/01): Severe Weather Indices and Forecasting Techniques
Lecture 34 (4/20/01): Discussion of Exam 2 Solutions
Lecture 35 (4/23/01): Severe Weather Indices and Forecasting Techniques (Cont'd)
Lecture 36 (4/25/01): Hurricanes
Lecture 37 (4/27/01): Hurricanes (Cont'd)
Lecture 38 (4/30/01): Climate Change/ElNino and LaNina
Lecture 39 (5/2/01): Climate Change/ElNino and LaNina (Cont'd) Lake-Effect Snowstorms
Lecture 40 (5/4/01): Lake Effect Snow Storms (Cont'd)
Download a Color
Thermodynamic Diagram here
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMINATION
Soutions
to Exam #2, Version A (same questions as in Version B, but in a different order)
Send Email to Dr. Droegemeier 
Send Email to Mr. Reader