OC3212 Polar Meteorology/Oceanography
Spring Quarter 2008
Meteorology portion syllabus
Last Update: 31 March, 2008

Instructor: Peter GuestPhone: 2451
Office: Root Hall, Rm. 258 E-mail: pguest@nps.navy.mil
Hours: 0900-1600 or by appointment Peter Guest Home Page: http://www.met.nps.navy.mil/~guestps/

# Date
General Category
Assignments
(Complete by date listed)
Topics
1. 3/31 Introduction
Course Goals, Logistics, Schedule
2. 4/1

Polar Climate Physics

3/1-3/6
Polar Climate Section
First two pages

 Factors that control Polar Climates
3. 4/2 Arctic Climate 3/6-3/31 Temperature, Humidity, Clouds, Winds, Precipitation
4. 4/3 Antarctic Cimate Polar Climate Section
Arctic Study Exercise		 Temperature, Humidity, Clouds, Winds, Precipitation
5. 4/4 Large Scale Circulation Patterns Polar Climate Section
Antarctic Study Exercise

Pressure Fields
Arctic Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, El Nino

6. 4/7 Climate Change Climate Change Section
Questions 1-10
Question 11 (turn in by 1/23)		 Global warming - Polar influence and response
7. 4/8 Pollution 5/1-5/5, Anthropogenic effects, Ozone hole, Arctic haze
8. 4/9 Arctic Synoptic 3/31-3/34 Pressure Patterns, Storm tracks, Cyclogenesis Regions
9. 4/15 Antarctic Synoptic Class Handout Pressure Patterns, Storm tracks, Cyclogenesis Regions
10. 4/16 Mesoscale 6/1-6/21, Class Handout Polar Lows - definitions, observations, types
11. 4/17 Mesoscale 6/22-6/23, Polar Lows - theory, models and prediction
12. 4/18 Air-ice interactions Class Handout Surface fluxes, Boundary layer structure
13. 4/21 Ice Margins 5/26 - 5/30, Meteorology of marginal ice zones
14. 4/22 Vessel Icing 10/1-10/16,
Vessel Icing Section
Questions 1-12 here		 Predicting and preventing icing problems

15.
 4/23 Quiz
(Meteorology Section)

Quiz Questions based on:
1. Class lectures and Power Points
2. Class Handouts
3. Web site info and questions
4. Forecaster's handbook

Grading: 1/3 final course grade based on meteorology
Of this, 80% will be from Quiz,
10% from Climate Change Question 11 assignment and
10% from class participation

FHA - Forecasters Handbook for the Arctic by Sechrist, Fett and Perryman, 1989.
Polar Meteorology Web Site http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/~psguest/polarmet/
Class handouts will be made available prior to the relevant class.