Surface charts

• Station plot symbols
• Fronts and precipitation symbols. Description
• Labeling ITCZ, monsoon trough, and dissipating fronts in tropics
• Surface map parameters: typical isopleths, intervals, colors, and shading
• Current surface chart
• Video recording (second half). Audio only.

Surface map analysis

• Margules theory and application to fronts
• Surface map analysis tips
• Front details
• Example national surface map. Example national surface map analyzed
• Example regional surface map. Example regional surface map analyzed
• Haboob. What is a gravity current?
• Video recording. Audio only. 

Optional material. Automated front algorithms

• Hewson and Titley
• Hewson original paper (requires account with journal Meteorological Applications )
• Jenkner et al.