UNC Charlotte

Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences

Dr. Matthew D. Eastin

Assistant Professor of Meteorology

• Syllabus

• Reference Texts

• Useful online COMET modules for Tropical Meteorology

• List of Useful Websites for Weather Briefings

• Weather Briefing Guidelines

• Evaluation Form for Weather Briefings

• Blank Skew-T Log-P Diagram

• NWS Guide to Skew-T Log-P Diagrams

• AWS Guide to Skew-T Log-P Diagrams

• Weather Chart Guidance

• Guide to Cylindrical Coordinate System, Thermodynamics, and more

• List of Potential Professional Articles for Undergraduate Paper Presentations

• Criteria and Evaluation for Undergraduate Paper Presentations

• Peer-Review Rubric for Oral Presentations

• Criteria and Evaluation for Graduate Research Presentations

• Criteria and Evaluation for Graduate Research Papers

• AMS Author's Guide (Brief version)

• Example Research Paper #1

• Example Research Paper #2

• Example Research Paper #3

• Lecture 1: Observing the Tropics

• Lecture 2: Tropical Cyclone Climatology

• Lecture 3: The Cylindrical Coordinate System

• Lecture 4: Tropical Cyclone Structure

• Lecture 5: Tropical Cyclone Evolution Part I

• Lecture 6: Tropical Cyclone Evolution Part II

• Lecture 7: Tropical Cyclone Evolution Part III

• Lecture 8: Tropical Cyclone Motion

• Lecture 9: Tropical Cyclone Forecasting

• Lecture 10: Tropical Cyclone Societal Impacts

• Lecture 11: Climatology and Large-scale Circulations of the Tropics

• Lecture 12: Convective Processes in the Tropics

• Lecture 13: Tropical Equatorial Waves

• Lecture 14: Atmosphere Ocean Coupling and ENSO

• Lecture XX: Monsoons

• Lecture XX: Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability

• Homework 1:  Exploring the HURDAT database

  • Atlantic Hurricane Tracking Chart

   

• Homework 2: Tropical Cyclone Structure

  • Hurricane Hugo flight-level data

  • Hurricane Hugo radar image

  • Hurricane Hugo satellite image

   

• Homework 3: Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change

  • Hurricane Hugo inflow-layer data

   

• Homework 4: Tropical Cyclone Motion and Rainfall Distributions

  • Kyle 2002 track

  • Bill 2003 total rainfall

  • Jeanne 2004 total rainfall

  • Erin 2007 total rainfall

   

• Homework 5: Global Climate Change and Tropical Cyclones

• Homework 6: ENSO Indices and Local Impacts

  • ENSO Index Data

  • ENSO Impact Data

• Exam #1 Review

• Exam #2 Review

• Final Exam Review

   

   

   

Last Updated:  Monday, November 24, 2008 04:08 PM