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Educational

 

  • The Weather Prediction – Weather prediction education by providing information on weather data interpretation and forecasting methods.
  • NOAA/NWS Warning Decision Training Division – Has training for anything involving the warning process at the NWS. Some meteorology background is recommended.
  • Meted – Hundreds of modules/videos covering nearly all aspects of the geosciences provided by UCAR. Great for all levels of knowledge in the field.

 

Rich Thompson is a lead forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. He has shared his knowledge of tornado forecasting in a 9 part series of videos. Definitely worth the watch.

Rich Thompson's Tornado Forecasting Workshop (More advanced)
  • Class 1: Weather Maps, Soundings, and Synoptic Meteorology
  • Class 2: Severe Storm Ingredients: Moisture and Lapse Rate Sources
  • Class 3: Severe Storm Ingredients: Lift and Vertical Shear Sources
  • Class 4: Supercell and Tornado Conceptual Models (+ Parameters)
  • Class 5: Synoptic and Mesoscale Tornado Patterns
  • Class 6: Convective mode – Synoptic and Mesoscale Tornado Patterns
  • Class 7: Tornado Parameter Climatology
  • Class 8: Numerical Models
  • Class 9: Real-time Forecasting Exercise
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Ariel Cohen and Rich Thompson's Severe Thunderstorm Ingredient Lectures
  • Class 1: Main Ingredients For Organized Severe Thunderstorms
  • Class 2: Lapse Rate Tendency Equation
  • Class 3: Conservation of Mass
  • Class 4: Moisture and the Return Flow Cycle
  • Class 5: Effects of Inland Mixing on Moisture
  • Class 6: Effects of Evapotranspiration
  • Class 7: Source and Evolution of Lapse Rates
  • Class 8: Synoptic Influences on Vertical Wind Shear
  • Class 9: Jet Streaks and Vertical Wind Shear
  • Class 10: Lee Cyclogenesis and Vertical Wind Shear
  • Class 11: Synoptic Lift Sources
  • Class 12: Mesoscale Lift and the Dryline
  • Class 12: Synoptic Review
  • Class 13: Skew-T Diagram Basics
  • Class 14: Hodograph Plots
  • Class 14: Observational Data Quality
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