Instructor: Professor Dean Hegg
520 Atmospheric
Sciences Bldg., 685-1984
deanhegg@atmos.washington.edu
Lectures: MWF, 11:30-12:20 PM; TTH, 11:30-1:20PM
Office Hours: To be arranged.
Required Tools: Lab notebook, bound, available at UBS
Textbook: None required
Evaluation: Laboratory Reports 66%; Final Exam 33%.
Mar 24 - Apr 2 Introduction. Covers: syllabus, course philosopy, grading, review of error analysis, how to write lab reports.
Apr 5-9 Temperature. Calibration of 6 transducers, time response, absolute and transfer standards.
Apr 16-12 Humidity. Calibration of various transducers, time response, vertical and horizontal variability.
Apr 19-23 Winds-anemometers. Calib. in AA wind tunnel, time response, some discussion of dopplar radar.
Apr 26-30 Precipitation/surface. TBG calibration, bias eval., other gauge types.
May 3-7 Experimental design, deployment of weather stations.
May 10-14 Precipitation/radar. Principles of radar retrival. Use of NEXRAD.
May 17-21 Precipitation/satellite. Principles of satellite retrival, profilers.
May 24-28 Aerosols and Chemistry. Principles of aerosol and chemical measurements, calibration of selected instruments, set-up of monitoring.
Jun 1-4 Analysis of data from deployment. Data collation, stations and monitoring analysis techniques, A&C instruments.
Jun 7-11 Data analysis (continued). Radiometers (if available).