Meteorological instruments, sensors, radiosonde, meteorological parameters, GTS, weather 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. |