MSC Home PageSunday February 17
0900 Meet at UCAR Foothills Lab, Course overview and
goals (P. Lewis/G. Toth), Administrative details (Lorrie Fyffe), Introductions.
0945 Workstation familiarization GARP (L. Page)
1200 Lunch (at a restaurant)
1300 Daily weather briefing (COMET staff)
1330 GARP familiarization forecasting lab (P.Lewis/G.
Toth)
Monday February 18 (Presidents' Day)
0830 COMET Welcome and Greeting (Greg Byrd)
0845 MSC Welcome and Greeting (S. Cober)
0900 Continental
cyclogenesis I (John Gyakum)
1015 Break/evaluation input
1045 Continental
cyclogenesis II (John Gyakum)
1200 Lunch (ordered in from somewhere)
1300 Daily weather briefing (course participants)
1330 Anticyclogenesis (S. Colucci)
1430 Break/evaluation input
1445 Continental cyclogenesis lab (Mackenzie Valley,
2001-10-27) (John Gyakum)
Tuesday February 19
0830 Non-classical
formation of SLD (S. Cober)
0930 Break/evaluation input
0945 Marine
lows including polar lows I (John Gyakum)
1045 Break/evaluation input
1100 Marine cyclogenesis lab part A (East coast Jan
11-14, 2002) (John Gyakum)
1200 Lunch
1300 Daily weather briefing (course participants)
1330 Marine
lows including polar lows II (John Gyakum)
1430 Break/evaluation input
1445 Marine cyclogenesis lab part B (East coast Jan
11-14, 2002) (John Gyakum)
1700 Reception #1
Wednesday February 20
0830 IPV
and the dynamic tropopause I (John Nielsen-Gammon)
0930 Break/evaluation input
0945 IPV lab
1045 Break/evaluation input
1100 IPV
and the dynamic tropopause II (John Nielsen-Gammon)
1200 Lunch
1300 Daily weather briefing (course participants)
1330 Isentropic
thinking and forecasting snowfall (Jim Moore)
1430 Break/evaluation input
1445 Isentropic thinking and snowfall forecasting
lab (Jim Moore)
Thursday February 21
0830 Frontal structures (Jon Martin)
0930 Break/evaluation input
0945 Frontal structures lab part A (Jon Martin)
1045 Break/evaluation input
1100 Frontal structures (Jon Martin)
1200 Lunch
1300 Daily weather briefing (course participants)
1330 The wonderful TROWAL (Jon Martin)
1430 Break/evaluation input
1445 Frontal structures lab part B (Jon Martin)
Friday February 22
0830 Energetics/development
potential (Gary Lackmann)
0930 Break/evaluation input
0945 Energetics lab (Gary Lackmann)
1045 Break/evaluation input
1100 Regional case presentations
1200 Lunch
1300 Daily weather briefing (course participants)
1330 Model
representation of freezing/melting (Gary Lackmann)
1430 Break/evaluation input
1445 Melting/freezing lab (Gary Lackmann)
