A one day course for industry professionals who wish to acquire a comprehensive overview of the subject and have the meteorological basics, weather systems, and atmospheric modelling clearly explained. Wind power meteorology, the atmospheric structure and scales are also covered.Course background GL Garrad Hassan has acted as the technical adviser for more than 21,000MW of operational wind projects, and assessed the energy yield of over 100,000MW. In undertaking these tasks, GL Garrad Hassan has advised on more wind farm developments than any other company in the world.This course offers an introduction to meteorology, with application to wind energy in mind. The course will cover a description of the atmospheric circulation, the structure of the atmosphere, and its various scales. Typical large systems as the low pressure system, monsoons and hurricanes will then be described. In the afternoon the modelling of the atmosphere will be discussed, and finally, the most important aspects of wind power meteorology will be described, these include: local effects, variations on different scales, "strange animals in the micro-scale zoo" like complex terrain, forestry, wind profiles, and thermally-driven winds. A questions and answers session will close the day. Course Outline Why does the wind blow? Structure of the atmosphere: the atmospheric engine, escape velocity, the layers of the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, albedo Atmospheric Scales: global, synoptic, meso, micro The low-pressure system The monsoons, tropical cyclones, hurricanes Atmospheric Variables: velocity (wind), pressure, temperature, humidity, density, stability Modelling the atmosphere: global circulation models, numerical weather prediction, chaos, ensemble Climate change Wind power meteorology Q&A session