Lectures related to Precipitation

Katabatic Winds in Antarctica: A Fascinating Phenomenon

Delves into the captivating katabatic winds in Antarctica and their impact on precipitation, exploring historical context, wind behavior, and coastal interactions.

Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Insights from the East Mediterranean

Explores aerosol-cloud interactions in warm and mixed-phase clouds at Mt. Helmos, Greece, emphasizing their implications for climate modeling and precipitation processes.

Hydrological Modeling: Routing System Introduction

Introduces hydrological modeling with a focus on the Routing System and covers various modeling techniques and calibration methods.

Extreme Events: Understanding Weather and Climate Extremes

Delves into extreme weather events, their definitions, causes, and consequences, emphasizing the importance of understanding climate change in relation to these occurrences.

Isovalues: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems MOOC: Geographical Information Systems 2

Introduces isolines and demonstrates their creation in QGIS.

Ceramics: Powder Synthesis

Explores ceramic powder synthesis, including families of powders, precipitation reactions, nucleation, growth mechanisms, sol-gel synthesis, and applications.

Spatial Phenomena: Isovalues MOOC: Geographical Information Systems 2

Covers continuous spatial phenomena and isovalues in geographic information systems, including interpolation methods and examples of isovalues curves for various environmental factors.

Climate Extremes: Metrics and Implications

Explores climate extremes, including fitting extreme value distributions, impact of climate change, and observed changes in temperature extremes.

Snow Formation: Crystal Growth and Precipitation Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores snow crystal formation, vapor transport, cloud formation, and ice crystal growth.

Remote Sensing Applications at MeteoSwiss Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores remote sensing applications at MeteoSwiss, including radar network challenges and quantitative precipitation estimation.

Rainfall Models: Deterministic vs Stochastic Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers deterministic and stochastic rainfall models in water resources engineering, including generation, calibration, and spatially explicit models.

Radar Meteorology: Principles and Applications Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores radar meteorology principles, microphysics analysis, scanning techniques, and lidar applications in atmospheric measurements.

Snowfall Microphysics: Radar Doppler Spectra Analysis Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores radar Doppler spectra analysis for studying snowfall microphysics and secondary ice production mechanisms.

Rainfall: Areal Average and Spatial Interpolation Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores methods for computing areal average rainfall and spatial interpolation techniques in hydrology.

Cloud Microphysics: Growth and Precipitation Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers the processes of cloud particle growth, precipitation formation, and ice crystal growth, including vapor deposition, collision-coalescence, and riming.

Meteorological Radar and Lidar Applications Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers the principles and applications of meteorological radar and lidar technologies in environmental monitoring.

Size Distribution of Drops and Ice Crystals Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores the statistical summary of drop properties and the significance of drop size distribution in cloud and precipitation formation.

Mountain Meteorology: Atmospheric Flow and Local Weather Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers the impact of mountains on atmospheric flow, local weather, stability, orographic precipitation, downslope winds, and frontal passage.

Snowfall Records and Crystal Formation Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores snowfall records, crystal formation, atmosphere composition, vapor pressure, cloud formation, and precipitation mechanisms.

Precipitation and Hydrologic Design Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers methods to define the design storm, empirical distribution of rainfall maxima, Gumbel distribution, and intensity-duration-frequency relationships.