How Meteorologists Map the Atmosphere
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Today we look at the constant pressure charts that are vital to understanding weather conditions and future forecasts across the world.
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I had a pretty similar experience. Got into Pecos Hank and slowly started getting recommended channels like weatherbox, Swegle Studios, and Carly Anna wx.
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What a fantastic video and channel. I really liked the way you build from the bottom of the atmosphere upward as I was taught to do by my professors. It’s such a good message that this can be taught to the general public without needing to go into fluid dynamics equations
Thanks Karl! It's a tough line to tow, but I think I'm doing alright so far. I have had some professors who would be a bit upset that I'm leaving the math out, but I think explaining things so everyone can understand is important
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I like using the 850 mb and surface maps to predict weather down here in SE Alabama.Looking at what the 850 mb chart is saying compared to ground truth with the surface map can sometimes give me a hint about the instability of airmasses moving west to east near and over me. The 850 will sometimes reflect what the surface map will look like in a few hours, something really useful with our fast moving spring storms down here.
If you get a job with the NWS (and I hope you do, if that's what you want), please don't fall victim to needing to show everyone you've just gotten an MS or PhD. I don't think you would, but I can tell when it's new hire season by how things like the forecast discussion are written at the NHC or SPC. They haul out every obscure meteorological term they've learned, just to show everyone how hard they studied. Since there will be a lot of non-pro's reading forecast discussions, it would be a lot easier if everyone agreed a squall line will be called a squall line rather than the ten other terms that mean about the same thing! :-)
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Just recently found your channel and starting at the beginning to learn the basics. This is so great! I've never understood what millibar charts meant before. Thank you so much
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We had 3d maps with the weather forecasts for a while here in Central Ohio, but I don't see them anymore. They showed cloud heights and i think temps.
Too expensive? Is anything like that available online?
I really want to know how storms are produced at night.
The wind shear plays a bigger role at night without the surface heating. Also cold/warm fronts/sea breezes can all produce the lift that the sun provides during the day
I always think of the atmosphere as a layer cake. Interestingly, air traffic control works like this, too. In most big cities it’s basically an upside down wedding cake. The higher up you go, the more strictly controlled that airspace is, and the further out radially that one ATC sector controls.
So if you’re flying near the ground, it may be uncontrolled airspace, but that exact same dot on the map is controlled by some region or ATC from, say, 8000’ upwards.
Thats Class B airspace
Why?
@@harryparsons2750 because higher altitudes are set aside for commercial aircraft. Private aircraft tend to stay closer to the ground, and away from large airports. Thus lower altitudes are more uncontrolled airspace, whereas with higher altitudes set aside for commercial aircraft, they’re much more tightly controlled.
I hope this makes sense. I’m not a pilot, just someone who’s interested in aircraft as well as the weather.
Yo! Me! Strong interest in weather but no interest in the math! Present!!
vertical front? just pressure? okay
Why can I have access to a 3d radar
I mean come on.
We actually do! I guess. Go download radarscope *if* you live in the US, Canada or Australia (the latter being my case). If you don’t, then it’s useless. But go grab it, select your local radar, and pull up the ‘tilt’ menu. You’ll have various tilt options, and what this does, is show you a scan higher up in the atmosphere.
This is why radar images take so long to update, because the actual antenna spins pretty quickly, maybe a couple dozen RPM. But what it’s doing, is scanning at a certain tilt, then changing the tilt upwards and scanning again, and so on, building a picture of higher levels in the atmosphere every time it passes a fixed point on the horizon.
I’d also imagine that higher tilts also allow you to correct for the curvature of the earth somewhat, but this is speculation on my part.
You might also be interested to know about dual polarisation. This is a newer add-on to Doppler radar (we actually used to have an experimental radar not far from where I currently live, being developed by both the Americans and Australians), and instead of scanning horizontally, it adds a vertical scan as well, so the radar can better differentiate between rain, hail, and I guess tornado debris as well.
Radars are so much more complicated than the views you get on the news etc, and believe me, radarscope will show you all that good stuff. I have no idea what even a third of it does. I guarantee you’ll get lost in it, with how much data it provides.