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Atmospheric Motions II
ATM S 442/504, Winter 2014
Lecture: MWF 1:30-2:20, ATG 310C
Lab: T 1:30-4:20, ATG 610 |
This schedule will be updated as the quarter progresses.
Week 1: Intro, the history of NWP, the structure of extratropical circulations, the QG equations, PV derivation of QG.
Reading: HH 6.1-6.3.
Day 1 slides
HW 1(due 1-15-14)
Week 2: PV thinking.
Real-time PV animations
PV in a simplified GCM
Structure of tropopause, potential temperature and PV in NH
Reading:
HH 6.4-6.5
HW 2 (due 1-24-14): 6.1, 6.2, 6.6, M6.1
Matlab code
Week 3:
Inversion of a PV anomaly, W-thinking.
Reading:
HH 6.6.
Week 4:
Cyclogenesis from PV and w-thinking perspectives. Test 1 (Jan 29).
Reading: HH 6.7, 7.1.
Week 5:
Eady model.
Reading: HH 7.2-7.5.
Slides from 2-7
HW 3 (due 2-14-14, extended to 2-19 if you want)
Week 6: Cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry, energetics of baroclinic instability
Reading: Holton Chap 7.
Week 7: Rayleigh criterion, effect of latent heating on PV.
Reading: Holton Chap 7.
Slides from 2-14 to 2-19
Week 8:
Latent heating and baroclinic instability/occlusion. Fronts and frontogenesis. Test 2 (Feb 28).
Reading: Holton Chap 9.1-2.
Latent heating/occlusion, and frontogenesis slides
Week 9:
The Hadley cells and Ferrel cells.
Reading: Holton Chap 10.1-10.2.
HW 4 (due 3-14-14)
Week 10:
Equatorial waves.
Slides
Reading: Holton Chap 11.4.
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