Introduction
- Mean Structure of the Atmosphere
- Mean
upper and lower circulation and temperatures
- Observations, rawinsondes
Bluestein Sections 1.2.5 and 1.4.4
Balanced Flow
- Geostrophic and Gradient winds
- Thickness, thermal wind
Wallace and Hobbs 1st edition Section 2.2, 8.6
Wallace and Hobbs 2nd edition Section 3.2 and
Section 8.2 (especially subsections 8.2.4 - 8.2.7)
(Go to the
online draft version of the new addition and click on 'text and
figures' for chapter 3 or chapter 8) see: Wallace
and Hobbs 2nd edition
Holton 3rd edition Section 3.2, 3.4
Cyclone
Structure
- Upper level patterns
- Surface patterns
- Frontal Analysis
Wallace and Hobbs 1st edition Chapter 3
Wallace and Hobbs 2nd edition Chapter 9
see: Wallace
and Hobbs 2nd edition Note that this chapter is not complete and
some figures are missing.
Bluestein Section 2.4
Cloud and Precipitation structure in cyclones
- Cloud distributions in cyclones
- Satellite applications to cyclones
Reading 1 Section 1
Quasi-Geostrophic Dynamics
- Height Tendency, and application to weather maps
- Diagnosis of Omega
Holton Chapter 6 (either edition)
Bluestein Sections 1.3 and 1.4
Cyclogenesis
- Norwegian Cyclone Model
Palmen Symposium Chapter 3, Section
3.2
- QG approach to cyclogenesis
Holton Chapter 6
- Potential Vorticity Approach to Cyclogenesis
Holton 4th Edition, Chapter 6, sections
6.3.2,.6.3.3, and 6.3.4.
Bluestein Section 1.9 (breeze through the equations)
Frontogenesis and alternative frontal structure
- Kinematic frontogenesis
Holton 3rd Edition section 9.2.1
- 2-D frontogenesis
Bluestein Section 2.3.1
- Upper Level Fronts
Bluestein Section 2.4.2
Keyser and Shapiro 1986 February Monthly Weather
Review
- T-bone Structure
Palmen Symposium Chapter 10
3-D
structure
- Streamlines
- Trajectories, airstreams
Palmen Symposium Chapter 8, by Browning 129-154
The Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones
Browning, pages 265-285.
Pacific
Northwest Weather
- Effects of terrain
Bluestein Section 2.5.6
- Puget Sound Convergence Zone
Chien, F.-C., and Mass, C. F., 1997, Interaction of
a warm-season frontal system with the coastal mountains of the western
United States. Part II: Evolution of a Puget Sound convergence
zone. Monthly Weather Review, 125, 1730-1752.
- Marine Push
Mass, C.F., M.D. Albright, and D.J. Brees, 1986:
Onshore surge of marine air into the Pacific Northwest: a coastal
region of complex terrain. Monthly Weather Review, 114, 2602-2627.
- Snowstorms
Ferber, G.K., C.F. Mass, G.M. Lackmann, and
M.W. Patnoe, 1993: Snowstorms over the Puget Sound lowlands.
Weather and Forecasting, 8, 481-504.
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