MTEOR 311 WEEK 2 SUPPORTING MATERIAL

Week 2 - Surface and Upper Air Data (coding/decoding)

Do you know what this means?

KAMW 131453Z AUTO 14006KT 4SM -RA BR SCT021 BKN033 21/19 A3016 RMK AO2 RAB42 SLP204 P0000 6//// T02110189 TSNO=

Surface data plotting

• Univ. of Wisc Station Plot overview
• Univ. of Illinois Overview of Surface Observations

  METAR Code

• Exam on METAR code and suface observations
• Quick Reference Card about METAR code

What about the following upper air code?

TTAA 65051 03005 99010 08008 23011 00167 07604 ///// 92804 03003 25515 85483 02101 24523 70004 07993 26533 50556 20758 26552 40717 32772 26055 30913 49175 26565 25030 58769 26568 20169 58374 26049 15351 54977 24535 10609 55977 24530 88223 63567 26069 77229 26073 40826

• TTAA/TTBB/PPBB decoding example (from FSU course)

The data is taken from a balloon like the following

• Weather Balloon