MLG 100: 
INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY

INSTRUCTIONAL LINKS: 
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION

For credit self-test complete the Chapter 6 "Chapter Test" by 4pm Monday 20 November.

Also complete the Chapter 7 "Chapter Test" by the same deadline.

A non-credit self test on pressure and wind can be located HERE.

UPPER AIR

You can view two animations of upper air circulation over North America:

• December 1996
• November 1997

Other than that, you might be interested in the following sites:

• Educational materials on forces and winds from UIUC
• Latest 500mb constant surface plot for North America
• Latest 500mb constant pressure surface for the Northern Hemisphere

SURFACE PRESSURE AND WINDS

HERE is a simple animation of global circulation (in cross-section).

The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

You can get current data on surface winds either from instruments in the lab, or you can go to either of the following sites (the NWS sites give pressure change):

• National Weather Service Current conditions.
• WSAW TV-7.