Meteorology
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This page is here to help students taking or revising our course Meteorology & Astronomy. The meteorology component is subtitled 'Meteorology: an introduction to weather, climate and the environment' and is a course intended for anyone with an interest in the subject and a basic knowledge of physical science and standard grade mathematics. The slides and notes are kept up-to-date. You can read here an earlier version of the introductory course handout (a doc file). This includes a detailed list of course content (pdf file) topics that you will find helpful for revision. Links available ahead of a lecture are updates based on last year's overheads but may differ slighly from lecture content. Revised material will be put on the web page after a section has been finished. Remember that the overheads are not a complete synopsis of the lecture contents, simply a summary. Read the textbook discussed in the introductory handout as well. The overhead summaries are .pdf files containing 6 slides to a page. They can be viewed using the Acrobat reader or equivalent software (on class-room PCs) and printed on a postscript printer (in colour, if required, but see further comments on printing slides).
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***** THE LECTURES ARE TRANSLATED INTO pdf FILES for both the slides (1 to-a page) and the summaries (6 to-a-page). ***** In addition to the overhead summaries, the lecturer's own notes that guide what he says are included this year for most sections of the course (in pdf format). Views expressed in these notes are his personal views.
The BBC weather pages contain Scottish and Aberdeen forecasts, including a 5-day forecast, UK rain radar animations, satellite pictures and weather on a European and world stage. The Met office offer a new look 5-day Aberdeen forecast. Met Office pressure charts over the next 72 hours can be seen on another Met Office page. The Met Office also has summary pages on the science behind the creation of forecasts on different timescales. Metlinks offers a user friendly layout that can be customised to your postcode (and they have many links besides). Wunderground (which you can get to through iGoogle) has a map that shows the Aberdeen locality with local weather stations marked. Click on an icon and further weather information from that station shows. A more comprehensive statement of current local conditions is available as the Dyce hourly weather report for the last 24 hours, with a graphical version supplied by the Met Office. The Met Office provide recent conditions reported over the country from selected locations shown on a map. Meteorological records for 12 weather variables for Aberdeen from 1994 until the present can be found and downloaded from NOAA's CLIMVIS site - choose "Global Summary 12 weather elements" and follow the "time series" link. The Department of Physics used to show some monthly sunshine figures recorded at the Fraser Noble Building but the list is not up-to-date since our service to the national radiation network has been discontinued. On a wider scale, the Press Association give the regional and national weather forecast but no longer for free the weather charts found in many broadsheet newspapers. The Very Useful UK Weather Page gives quick access to synoptic charts, satellite pictures and regional forecasts. If that fails, Metbrief show all the Met Offices charts on 1 page. A summary of Aberdeen's climate is given in a simple table showing monthly average temperatures (in degress Fahrenheit), rainfall (in inches) and dew point. More comprehensive Aberdeen monthly averages for temperatures, rainfall, windspeed and humidity are given in Imperial and metric units. Historical statistics giving Aberdeen's average temperature, rainfall and pressure can be found under historical climate data. From here you can navigate to other places in the NE, and beyond. 30-year average climate data tables are available from the Met Office. The nearest local station is Craibstone. An extended UK dataset is also presented mapped over the British Isles.
Try here for a European 10-day temperature forecast or a European 10-day rainfall forecast. Forecast charts from 3 to 6 days ahead, and a lot more, are available from European Centre for Medium Range Forecasts. A stunning view of the world today is obtained in a composite picture from the University of Wisconsin that illustrates the world's cloud as seen by geostationary satellites, and both land and sea temperatures More Links There is plenty of meteorology on the World Wide Web. A list of additional LINKS is given here that will give you further access to today's forecasts, weather charts, meteorological organisations, educational resources and sites with many more references. We also have yet another page of sites of related interest. |
