Weekly Labs
- Lab 1 - Week 1
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- Lab 4 - Week 4
- Lab 5 - Week 5
- Lab 6 - Week 6
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- Lab 8 - Week 8
- Lab 9 - Week 9
- Lab 10 - Week 10
- Lab 11 - Week 11
- Lab 12 - Week 12
- Lab 13 - Week 13
Meteorology 411 - Weekly Labs
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Week 8 - Q-vectors
Remember - Q vectors are a way to avoid the complications of having thermal advection oppose vorticity advection. Q-vector convergence is where one would expect upward motion. Some forecasters prefer to look at F-vectors, which are computed in the same way Q-vectors are, except observed winds are used instead of geostrophic winds. Questions remain, however, about the validity of this approach. |
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