Introduction to Weather Technology using MetPy

This is a textbook to demonstrate the use of the MetPy declarative syntax and develop knowledge within the meteorological domain at an early collegiate level. Prior coursework in an introductory meteorology is expected to be able to follow and work through all material but even just a basic understanding of meteorology content and processes should be enough to understand the vast majority of the content of this book.

The text is contain in four main parts as exhibited in the table of contents below.

Introduction

• 1. Introduction

Python Syntax

• 2. Python Basics
• 3. Python Program Control Flow
• 4. Datetime Module
• 5. Python Script
• 6. Runtime Control with Scripts

Meteorological Concepts, Data Analysis, and Visualization using MetPy

• 7. MetPy Introduction
• 8. Surface Obs and Plotting
• 9. Upperair Obs and Plotting
• 10. Introduction to Hand Analysis
• 11. Atmospheric Forces
• 12. Gridded Data and Contour Plotting
• 13. Atmospheric Force Balances
• 14. Color-filled Plotting
• 15. Life Cycle of Mid-Latitude Cyclones
• 16. Overlay Observations and Contours
• 17. Numerical Weather Prediction
• 18. Derived Atmospheric Parameters
• 19. Calculations with MetPy
• 20. Skew-T Log-p Diagram
• 21. Satellite Observations

Appendix

• Common Errors and Solutions
• Accessing Surface Data
• Accessing Upperair Data
• Access Gridded Archive Data
• Working with NAM Data
• MetPy Declarative Syntax