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Topics covered in METEO 445 and METEO 446
(for GS-1340 Requirement)
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Meteo 445 (1 credit; 3 contact hours per week)
Introduction to Data Interpretation
Learning to use an Analog/Digital board that couples instruments to a PC
Measuring solar flux with a LiCor pyranometer (two labs)
Using an infrared radiation thermometer to measure ground temperature patterns (two labs)
Measuring the wind with hot wire, propeller and cup anemometers
Using a thermocouple junction to measure temperature
Investigating rainfall variation via class measurements

Meteo 446 (1 credit; 3 contact hours per week)
Methods for controlling temperature in a laboratory setting for instrument calibration
Measuring humidity with a sling psychrometer
Measuring humidity with a dew-point hygrometer
Measuring the latent heat of vaporization of water
Understanding the propagation of errors when deriving atmospheric quantities from measurements
Using the cloud chamber to study heterogeneous cloud formation
Measuring the size distribution, number density and liquid water content of cloud drops
Investigating the supercooling of cloud drops of various sizes
Measuring the pH of aqueous samples
Ice crystal morphology

 

 

Last Updated: October 8, 2004

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