Subject Code:: CL6L233	Name: Weather Analysis and Forecasting	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit:3
Pre-requisite(s):
Meteorological instruments, sensors, radiosonde, meteorological parameters, GTS, weather Subject Codes and decoding of weather observations, programming languages, Unix & shell programming, data formats, software tools for meteorological data, thermodynamic diagrams, weather charts, air masses and fronts, jet streams, mid-latitude and tropical disturbances; synoptic features during different seasons, meso-scale systems, monsoon climatology, 850 hPa& 200 hP, ψ and χ fields, mass & wind fields, cyclone development, synoptic forecasting. Text/Reference Books: Tim Vasquez, Weather Analysis and Forecasting Handbook, Weather Graphics Technology   Publications Jean Coiffier. Fundamentals of Numerical weather prediction, Cambridge University Press Steven A. Ackerman, John A. Knox, Meteorology, Brooke/Cole Publications