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 7.2 (especially subsections 7.2.4 - 7.2.7)
(To go to the
online draft version of the new edition see: Wallace
and Hobbs 2nd edition and download the pdf files of the latest
version of the chapter
of interest.)
Holton 4th edition Section 3.2, 3.4
Cyclone Structure
- Upper level and Surface Patterns
- Cyclone Structure
Wallace and Hobbs 1st edition Chapter 3
Wallace and Hobbs 2nd edition Chapter 8, sections
8.1.1, 8.1.2, and 8.1.3
Bluestein Section 2.4.1
Cyclogenesis
- Quasi-geostrophic system
Holton Chapter 6
Durran and Snellman, 1987
- Norwegian cyclone model
Palmen Memorial Volume Chapter 3, pages
27-30 (if you want to see the rest of the Chapter, see me)
- Potential Vorticity perspective
Bluestein Section 1.9 (Sections 1.6-1.8 are also
in our folder)
Holton Sections 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4
Morgan and Nielsen-Gammon 1998, MWR. (this is
for those with extra-special interest)
Frontogenesis
- Kinematics and a little dynamics
Holton Sections 9.1 and 9.2.1
Bluestein Sections 2.3 and just a little of 2.5.1
- Upper level fronts
Bluestein Section 2.4.2
Palmen Memorial Volume Chapter 10, section
10.2
Keyser and Shapiro 1986, MWR, 452-499 (for the
true affectionato --see me if you want to copy it)
Marine cyclones
- Explosive Cyclogenesis (for the extra, extra interested, this
only the beginning)
Sanders and Gyakum 1980, MWR
BAMS Feb 1995 1st three articles -- Kocin et al.,
Uccellini et al., Caplan
Bosart et al. Sept. 1996, MWR
Dickinson et al. Dec., 1997, MWR
- Marine cyclone structure
Palmen Memorial volume Section 10.4
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