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Week by week
A collection of links to pdf versions of Terry Hart's weekly Power Point presentations.
(Links are underlined)
Week 1
Introduction:
Visiting the Bureau of Meteorology web site
Embedded and related links:
Bureau of Meteorology web page
Week 2
What is Weather:
Lightning Megaflashes, and What is Weather?
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video
Lightning Tracing, crawling across sky in Northern Australia
WeatherZone web page
Week 3
Atmospheric Pressure:
Why is pressure in the atmosphere so important?
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Embedded and related links:
Aerodrome Forecasts
Youtube video
How Does Temperature Affect Air Pressure?
Week 4
Atmospheric Pressure:
How the atmosphere responds when there is a pressure difference
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video
The Galaxcy Song
from Monty Python
Wikipedia: Coriolis force
Week 5
The Coriolis Effect:
The Coriolis Effect
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video
What The Physics?!
Youtube video
The Coriolis Effect Explained
Wikipedia: The Hadley Cell
Week 6
Why do we have weather?
Why do we have weather?
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video
What is global circulation? | Part One | Differential heating
Youtube video
What is global circulation? | Part Two | The three cells
Week 7
The Gobal Circulation
The Global Circulation
Embedded and related links:
Satellites Orbiting the Earth in 2022
Catalog of Earth Satellite Orbits
EUMET View
Zoom Earth
Week 8
Clouds
Clouds
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video
What is global circulation? : Part Two : The three cells
International Cloud Atlas
Manual on the Observation of Clouds and Other Meteors
International Cloud Atlas
Useful concepts
Youtube video
A Tutorial on Cloud Types
Youtube video
Why are there clouds?
Youtube video
How do clouds float?
ABC video
What's in a cloud? A guide to what cloud formations can tell us about the weather
International Cloud Atlas
Cloud identification guide
The Cloud Appreciation Society
Youtube video Joni Mitchell
Both sides, now
Week 9
Clouds and the Global Circulation
Clouds and the Global Circulation
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video
A year of weather 2021
Monitoring the weather and climate from space
EUMETSAT
Week 10
Observing the Weather
Observing the Weather
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video Derek Muller explains
Why the Fahrenheit scale is so wierd
Thermal comfort what does
Feels like mean?
Weather maps from Ship Traffic Net including
Beaufort Scale wind maps
Week 11
Observing the Weather (2)
Observing the Weather (2)
Embedded and related links:
Units:
F = 9/5 C + 32
C = (F - 32) 5/9
1 knot = 1.85 kilometer/hour (Approx 9/5)
Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
Measuring solar irradiance: the
Pyranometer
Week 12
Upper Air Measurements
Upper Air Measurements
Embedded and related links:
Preparing and Launching a Weather Balloon
Weather balloons
Youtube video Derek Muller explains
Weather balloons on Venus, a helicopter ;n Mars
Week 13
Upper Air Measurements (2)
Upper Air Measurements (2)
Embedded and related links:
Zoom Earth
Evaporation Rates, Condensation Rates, and Relative Humidity
Week 14
The Global Weather Observing System - Aircraft and Satellite
The Global Weather Observing System - Aircraft and Satellite
Embedded and related links:
World Meteorological Organisation:
Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay
AMDAR
Atmospheric Motion Vectors: Past, Present and Future
NASA Earth Observatory
Rare Filling of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MODIS
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forcasts
ECMWF
Week 15
Fronts, Troughs and Lows
Fronts, Troughs and Lows
Embedded and related links:
What are air masses?
Why are they called fronts?
Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts
From the MET Office
What are weather fronts?
From the BoM
AskBOM: What is a cold front?
From the ABC
What is a cold front and why does it do so much damage?
Week 16
More on Fronts, Troughs and Lows
More on Fronts, Troughs and Lows
Embedded and related links:
Wikipedia
Air mass
What is a weather bomb?
What is the jet stream and how does it affect the weather?
Wikipedia
Hadley Cell
Week 17
Weather Radar
Weather Radar
Last week's Weather
Next week's Weather
Embedded and related links:
From Phys Org Camels' noses inspire a new humidity sensor
Looking for water
Landsat Looks at the Moon
Measuring War's Effect on a Global Breadbasket
The ABC
How the history of weather forecasting went from reading clouds to supercomputers
BOM video
How does a weather radar work?
To explore some past cases at:
Australian Weather Radar Archive
For examples:
Thunderstorms in Melbourne : 22 March 2019 02-11 UTC
Tropical Cyclone Debbie: Bowen or Mackay radars: 27 March to 1 April 2017
Rain in Sydney 1 to 4 July 2022
Black Saturday, Melbourne: 7 February 2009 02-15 UTC
both the standard images and the Doppler view.
Hail in Brisbane: 27 November 2014 03-09 UTC
Week 18
Weather Radar - Ocean - Waves and Swell
Weather Radar - Ocean - Waves and Swell
Embedded and related links:
A page of links to Extreme temeratures around the world
Australian Weather
Radar Archive
Manly Hydrolics Laboratory
Week 19
"Local" winds
"Local" winds
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Katabatic winds and Antarctic weather
Katabatic winds
Katabatic and Anabatic Wind
List of local winds
Youtube video:
What are Foehn Winds?
Youtube video:
Phase changes in water
Week 20
Sky and Rain
Sky and Rain
Embedded and related links:
Youtube video nbsp;Blue Sky in a Cup; Try this Experiment!
Youtube video nbsp;Clouds and Cloud Formation
Wikipedia nbsp;Wilson Cloud Chamber
Youtube video nbsp;Why Do Clouds Stay Up?
Youtube video:
Bergeron process
Week 21
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
Embedded and related links:
Ask BOM video What is a thunderstorm?
Ask BOM video What is a severe thunderstorm?
Week 22
Hail and Tornadoes
Hail and Tornadoes
Embedded and related links:
Ask BOM video What is a thunderstorm?
Ask BOM video What is a severe thunderstorm?
Weather Wise video What is hail? How is hail formed and why does it happen?
Why the US has so many tornadoes
Week 23
Tornadoes and Lightning
Tornadoes and Lightning
Embedded and related links:
GOES-R site: video What Causes a Tornado?
Why the US has so many tornadoes
Wikipedia
Enhanced Fujita scale
National Geographic
The science of lightening
Week 24
Lightning and Tropical Cyclones
Lightning and Tropical Cyclones
Embedded and related links:
Weather Wise: video How does lightning work? Where does it come from?
Wikipedia
Sprite_(lightning)
Wikipedia
Linghtening conductor (rod)
Wikipedia
St. Elmo's fire
Wikipedia
Ball Lightening
Lightening maps
What is the difference
Hurricane vs Cyclones vs Typhoons
What's the difference?
Hurricane vs. Tornado
National Hurricane Center
Week 25
Tropical Cyclones El Niño/La Niña
Tropical Cyclones El Niño/La Niña
Embedded and related links:
Nation Hurricane Center
BOM video
Severe weather outlook
BOM
Storm surge
BOM
Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy
Youtube video Dale Grey
The very fast break: September 2022
Climate Dogss
Week 26
El Niño/La Niña/Indian Ocean Dipole
El Niño/La Niña/Indian Ocean Dipole
Embedded and related links:
Charles Todd (1826 - 1910)
Gilbert Walker (1868-1958)
BOM
Australian climate influences timeline
El Niño and La Niña events
BOM
Climate Driver Update - Pacific Ocean
Moored weather bouys
Argo
Argo's status
Climate Kelpie
El Niño/Southern Oscillation
Video from
BoM
Climate kelpie
Indian Ocean Dipole
Video from
BoM
Climate kelpie
Week 27
Guest speaker Tony Heyes
Measuring the Universe
Embedded links:
The Star That Redefined the Universe
If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?
The Galaxcy Song
from Monty Python
Week 28
El Niño/La Niña/Indian Ocean Dipole Global effects &
Ozone Hole
El Niño/La Niña/Indian Ocean Dipole Global effects &
Ozone Hole
Embedded and related links:
Argo status
BOM
Latest Sea Surface Temperature Analysis
BOM
Climate Driver Update
BOM
Indian Ocean influences on Australian climate
Introducing the Climate Dogs
BOM video
El Niño _ Southern Oscillation
Dog video
Climatedog Enso: a big influence on Australia’s climate and seasonal variability (El Niño/La Niña)
BOM video
Understanding the Indian Ocean Dipole
Video from
Climatedog Indy: important for delivering spring rainfall in Australia (Indian Ocean Dipole)
Wind
Defender scores own goal with stunning overhead kick
Week 29
Ozone Hole & Forecasting the Weather
Ozone Hole & Forecasting the Weather
Embedded and related links:
ANTARCTIC OZONE
Susan Solomon
Gobal Monitoring Laboratory
South Pole Ozone Animations
NASA video
Ozone Watch
Ozone Watch video
October 2022
Climate Prediction Center
Meteorological Conditions & Ozone in the Polar Stratosphere
2022 S.H. Polar Vortex Area
Wiki
Ozone Depletion
United Nations Environment Program video
Ozone Action
Video
The Montreal Protocol
Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Southern Hemisphere (Antarctic) Stratospheric Ozone
and Temperature Data: Time Series
Week 30
Forecasting the Weather
Forecasting the Weather
Embedded and related links:
BOM
Bureau Forecast Accuracy
Week 31
Ocean Measurements Ocean currents
Ocean Measurements Ocean currents
Embedded and related links:
Argo's status
California Academy of Sciences
Why Do We Have Different Seasons?
GCSE Geography
Understanding Global Atmospheric Circulation
Met Office:
What is global circulation?
Differential heating
Met Office:
What is global circulation?
The three cells
Week 32
Forecasting the Weather Accuracy and limitations
Forecasting the Weather Accuracy and limitations
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Weather and Chaos:
The Work of Edward N. Lorenz
Fact sheet:
Ensemble weather forecasting
Week 33
Climate Change
Climate Change
Embedded and related links:
Joseph Fourier (1768 ~ 1830)
Claude Pouillet (1790 ~ 1868)
Eunice Newton Foote (1819 ~ 1888)
John Tyndall (1820 ~ 1893)
Scripps Oceanography
The Keeling Curve
2022 Prime Minister's Prize for Science
Professor Trevor McDougall AC
Trevor McDougall
Climate Feedback
Global Warming Blog
Roy Spencer
BoM
The State of the Climate 2022
Skeptical Science
IPCC
Australian Academy of Science
The science of climate change
Bureau of Meteorology/CSIRO
Climate Change in Australia
Professor Ray Cas's Power Point presentation
Assessing the factors that cause climate change
