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GFD II
ATM S 542
MWF 12:30-1:20, ATG Rm. 310C
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This schedule will be updated as the quarter progresses.
Mon March 30-Fri April 11:
Vorticity, circulation. Solenoids, stretching, tilting. The barotropic vorticity equation. The Charney, Fjortoff, and von Neumann NWP
experiment, and the Richardson NWP experiment.
Kelvin Circulation Theorem. Ertel PV. IPV.
Readings: Vallis 4.1-4.5.
Lecture 1 materials: 500 hPa height
WV
Lecture 3 materials: My powerpoint slides
Peter Lynch's talk on Richardson's experiment
See me for the code to the barotropic vorticity equation on the sphere
model!
Lecture 5 materials: My ppt slides
Chapter 4 review: Chapter 4 review
Fri April 11-Fri April 18:
Planetary geostrophic equations. Quasi-geostrophic shallow water equations.
Readings: Vallis 5.1-5.3.
Mon April 21-Fri May 2:
Continuously stratified QG system.
PV-thinking. Omega equation. W-thinking. Q-vectors.
Readings: Vallis 5.4-5.6.
PV thinking slides
w-thinking slides
Mon May 5-Wed May 14:
Rossby waves. Barotropic instability. Edge waves. Rayleigh criterion.
Readings: Vallis 5.7-5.8, 6.1-6.4.
Friday lecture material: barotropic instability in the atmosphere (thanks to
Greg Hakim)
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Slides
Movie
Fri May 16-June 4:
Baroclinic instability: Available potential energy, Charney-Stern criterion,
the Eady model. Two-layer baroclinic instability. The Charney problem.
Nonlinear baroclinic instability. Non-QG effects. Energetics. Baroclinic
lifecycles.
Readings: Vallis 6.4-6.9.
Baroclinic instability review slides
Last class slides
Pierrehumbert and Swanson baroclinic instability
review
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