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Upper-Level Jet Streaks

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Sample Content

  • METEO 101: Sample Content
  • METEO 241: Sample Content
  • METEO 361: Sample Content
    • Lesson 1. Meeting the Mesoscale
    • Lesson 3. Sizing up the Synoptic Scale
      • Assessing Strong Updrafts
      • Lapse Rates
      • Vertical Wind Shear
      • The Big Picture at 500 mb
      • Lee Troughs
      • Surface Boundaries and the Big Picture
      • Prefrontal Troughs and Confluence
      • The Big Picture at 850 mb
      • Elevated Convection
      • Upper-Level Jet Streaks
      • Coupled Jet Streams
  • METEO 410: Sample Content

Course materials prepared by Steve Seman, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.

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