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Autumn Quarter 2017
Instructor: Greg Hakim
Class meets: MWF 10:30-11:20 ATG 310C.
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subject to change at any time
Motivation and review
- What will you learn and why is it important?
- Review of essential mathematics.
Physical conservation laws applied to the atmosphere
Basic applications
- conservation laws in isobaric coordinates
- natural coordinates and balanced flow
- trajectories & streamlines
- thermal wind
- estimating vertical motion, take I.
Circulation, vorticity, and potential vorticity
- kinematics (diagnosis of airflow with dynamics)
- circulation theorems
- vorticity & the vorticity evolution equation
- potential vorticity & the potential vorticity evolution equation
- integral contraints on vorticity and potential vorticity
Linear waves
- basic properties of waves
- introduction to linear methods and wave solutions
- linear waves of the primitive equations
- geostrophic adjustment
Quasigeostrophic theory
- simplified potential vorticity conservation
- estimating vertical motion, take II.
- application to weather systems
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