Instrumentation and Measurement of Atmospheric Parameters Training Lessons

A series of ten meteorological instrumentation and measurement training lessons for undergraduate and graduate education was produced by the NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory, Millersville University, and The COMET Program, and is freely available to the community. This series will provide approximately 20 hours of atmospheric instrumentation training. The course focuses on the science involved in measuring basic atmospheric parameters and can help with successful instrument siting and data collection for various efforts. A free COMET login is required.

This training series was developed in response to a two-decade calling from the atmospheric sciences community to provide a coherent set of livable, interactive, high-quality, online multimedia instructional modules covering the broad subject area of instrumentation, measurement, and observing systems that will serve instructors as course supplements and students as stimulating, engaging, learning experiences.

Target Audience: Upper-level undergraduate and first and second-year graduate students.
Target Length: 75-90 minutes to complete each module.
About the Lessons
Include well-planned learning objectives to guide content and assessments.
Serve to augment face-to-face instruction in courses for instrumentation, measurement, and observing systems; can also be used in total or in part as content material in other courses and with different delivery formats.
Engage the students in forward-thinking measurement techniques and technology by teaching fundamental principles, basic mathematics, engineering underpinnings, and subject area content and context.
Include videos, graphics, interactive educational tools, and assessments with scores able to be emailed to instructors.

Meteorological Instrumentation and Measurement Training Lessons Brochure