Watching the weather

This free course, Watching the weather, describes how meteorological observations are made looking upwards from the surface of the Earth, looking downwards from satellites in space and from aircraft and balloons within the atmosphere. This international network of observations is vital for scientists and forecasters and the results impact on everyones daily activities.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Recording the weather: from the surface
• 1 Recording the weather: from the surface
• 1.1 What is worth recording?
• 1.2 Weather observations
• 1.3 Automated weather observation
• 1.4 The global perspective
• 2 Recording the weather: from the top down
• 2 Recording the weather: from the top down
• 2.1 The view from space
• 2.2 Observing the Earth in the visible and infrared
• 2.3 Comparing with the view from the ground
• 2.4 Observing at other frequencies
• 2.5 Where to see satellite images
• 3 Recording the weather: filling in the middle
• 3 Recording the weather: filling in the middle
• 3.1 Radiosondes
• 3.2 Precipitation radar
• 3.3 Aircraft
• Conclusion
• Take the next step
• Acknowledgements