Geography 103: Weather
Exercises
and Links to Weather Sites
An excellent source
for weather maps is the web site
weather.unisys.com. At this site you
can find surface data, upper level meteorological data, satellite images, radar
data and forecasts for the
Another excellent
source of weather maps and information is the National
Weather Service. By clicking on a
map of the
NCEP (
The Geography
Department at CSUN operates weather stations locally. The CSUN weather page is located at http://www.csun.edu/geography/HTML/weather_station.html.
Exercise 1. Current
weather at CSUN.
Exercise 2A. Hourly
weather records from CSUN: Temperature.
Exercise 2B. Hourly weather records from CSUN: Temperature
and solar radiation.
Exercise 2C. Hourly weather records from CSUN: Temperature
and relative humidity.
Exercise 3. Reading
a weather map
Exercise
4. The
500 mb height chart
Exercise
5. Temperatures,
pressures and winds at 18000 ft.
Exercise
6. The
1000 - 500 mb thickness chart.
Exercise
7. An
850 mb temperature chart.
Exercise
8. Winds
at 300 mb.
Exercise
9. Surface
weather charts.
Exercise 10.
Los
Angeles weather.
Sounding Exercises How to read, understand and construct a
Stuve diagram.
©
Helen Cox, 2004.
Last
updated Aug 29, 2005.