Transcript Exceter Trip - Oldham Sixth Form College

Exeter Trip
Early Morning
•The day started by meeting at college
at 6.30 am. We then drove down to
Manchester airport, ready to fly down
to Exceter.
In Exeter
When we
arrived in Exeter, we
had transport arranged. We started the day
in Exeter by going to the University first,
then to the Met Office.
The University
When we arrived at the university, we were
taken to the maths department
Where we met some of the professors
and had some refreshments.
We then had a tour of the university, given by a student that attended. The tour was
mainly of the grounds and accommodation, as there was not enough time to see all the
separate departments.
The University of Exeter has two campuses in Exeter and in Cornwall.
For the university website:
www.exeter.ac.uk
For the prospectus:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/prospectus/
For a virtual tour
(from exeter.ac.uk):
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/
virtualtours/index.shtml?
icid=D056-3279672-017G
After our tour of the university, we had a talk about the weather.
The talk showed the governing equations which are used to predict
weather, how the formulas are created, the characters of atmospheric
flow, and the models in spherical geometry.
The presentation:
http://blood.osfc.ac.uk/apn/aimhighermaths/Exeter/Exeter_uni_talk.pdf
After the presentation, we
had dinner at the University
cafe, before
Going to the Met Office.
The Met Office
When we arrived at the met office, we had a presentation on the Met Office and
what its everyday tasks where, including facts, staff information, environmental
issues, observation, for forecasts are produced and about the day.
The presentation can be viewed at:
http://blood.osfc.ac.uk/apn/aimhighermaths/exeter/
After the presentation provided by the met office,
we had a tour of the Met office.
This started inside, where we saw how the
weather is
predicted from
the pictures
which are
received on the
computers.
We was also
shown the super
computers.
The tour continued outside, where we viewed the instruments which predicted the
weather.
View a video of the trip at:
(filmed by Andrew Preston)
https://mail.osfc.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://
blood.osfc.ac.uk/apn/aimhighermaths/met.MPG
View the webcam at the Met Office:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/
uk/webcam/exeter/index.html