Meteorolgy
Primary and Secondary Rainbows over Honolulu, Hawaii
Photo by Joseph Gerencher
I retired from the Moravian College faculty in 2009, so the pages below describe the meteorology course and the facilities for meteorology only prior to the summer of 2009. Please see the Physics and Earth Science Departmental web site for the current descriptions.
Click here to see the Earth Science classroom.
The meteorology course description was as follows:
Earth Science 120: Meteorology. The study of the physical processes and properties of the atmosphere, elements of weather analysis and forecasting, and effects of the atmosphere on people and their activities; laboratory includes weather instruments and observations, weather map construction and analysis, experiments, scale models, and computer applications.
The syllabus for the Fall, 2008, semester is available as a Word document. All my syllabi in all the courses that I taught during my entire career were printed on both sides of only a single sheet of paper.
The current weather, measured continuously on the roof of Collier Hall of Science on the Moravian College campus, has been available over the Internet.
The videos, films, and animations that had been shown in the course have links on this page and can be viewed only from networked computers on campus.
Moravian had been a participant in the UNIDATA program and was a licensed site for the McIDAS computer program.
The following computer programs were available to all students on all public pc computers on campus:
ArcView
Winds
Seasons
Clouds
Storm Systems
Understanding Weather and Climate, 4th edition, (CD-ROM
needed)
Halo
McIDAS
Meteorology equipment for the laboratory:
jet
stream apparatus
tornado
model apparatus
theodolite for tracking pilot balloons
This page contains links to view:
Gerencher's own meteorological images
link to the web
site of the text: Weather and Climate, 4th ed, by Aguado and
Burt, 2007.
external sites associated with Meteorology and/or Climatology
current
weather
interactive
meteorological education web activities
meteorological
educational sites
climatological
sites
integrated
meteorology exercises
live
weather webcam sites
web
sites associated with texts in Meteorology
Meteomusic was a Word document that contained the titles of music that had an meteorological theme. The meteomusic list was compiled the old-fashioned way -- by individuals looking over their collections of records, tapes, CD's, and digital archives.
A collection of meteorological videos was maintained by the Moravian College library.