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Posted on: 2020-09-23
What Is MetEd?
MetEd is a free collection of hundreds of training resources intended for the geoscience community. Whether you're an experienced meteorologist honing existing skills or a student looking for new geoscience topics of interest, we have something for you. Learn more about MetEd in this short video.
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Satellite Applications for Winter Weather: Snow Squalls
New-generation GOES-R and JPSS satellite products offer improved capabilities for detecting and monitoring some of the more subtle elements of winter weather events, including snow squalls. In this lesson you will investigate a snow squall case in central...
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National Water Model Services: Training Videos
National Water Model (NWM) services continue to evolve with new and updated services and visualizations. This training provides a series of six short training videos and corresponding fact sheets about NWM services and how they are used in decision support...
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Instrumentation and Measurement of Surface Precipitation
This lesson offers a comprehensive overview of precipitation measurement at the Earth’s surface. The lesson begins by defining precipitation and why it is an important property to characterize. It then provides details about the properties and characteristics...
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Using the NOAA Tidal Analysis Datums Calculator
The NOAA Tidal Analysis Datums Calculator (TAD) reads a time series of water level data and calculates several tidal datums. This lesson provides step-by-step instruction on using TAD. It describes data and metadata requirements, the processes used by TAD...
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GNSS Positioning: Survey Planning and Data Acquisition
With the common adoption of GNSS in land surveying, best practices have evolved with improving hardware and faster data processing. This lesson follows several surveyors as they work their way through projects, touching all aspects from initial planning up...
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Rip Currents: National Weather Service Mission and Partnerships, 2020 Edition
This lesson begins with a basic description of rip currents and rip current safety and a look at the partnerships between the US National Weather Service (NWS), National Sea Grant College Program, and the United States Lifesaving Association. It includes a...
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Rip Currents: Nearshore Fundamentals, 2020 Edition
Every year over 100 fatalities occur in the United States in the surf zone along our beaches. Rip currents account for the majority of surf zone fatalities with high surf, sneaker waves, longshore currents and others contributing. A first step in predicting...
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The Structure of the NWS Aviation Program
All NWS employees involved in forecast operations should be aware of the general infrastructure, roles, and responsibilities of NWS aviation programs, including Weather Forecast Offices, Center Weather Service Units, the Aviation Weather Center, AWC National...
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Instrumentation and Measurement of Atmospheric Radiation
This lesson outlines the importance of measurements of atmospheric radiation and describes the main types of instrumentation used in obtaining these measurements. Solar radiation instrumentation described includes thermal detectors (pyranometers and pyroelectric...
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GOES-R/JPSS Case Exercise: Products & Capabilities for Assessing Convective Initiation
This 45-minute lesson highlights a sample of GOES-R and JPSS satellite products that can provide useful information to forecasters during convective weather scenarios. In this lesson, the learner takes on the role of a forecaster working a shift during a...
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