Lecture #22
Wind Hodographs, Streamwise Vorticity, Helicity
Monday, 12 March 2001

Text Reading for Lecture #22
Air Force Handout

 

WIND HODOGRAPHS

See USAF Handout
See Handout by Weisman and Klemp
Click HERE for powerpoint file on hodographs

A real hodograph:

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ADIABATIC CHARTS/THERMODYNAMIC
DIAGRAMS (text reading pages 174-175; review

pages 161-171)

The Thermodynamic Diagram 1

The Thermodynamic Diagram 2

The Thermodynamic Diagram 3

Unidata Interactive Sounding

To come: Use of soundings and hodographs
to determine storm type, motion, and
other characteristics.