ATM645 Calendar 2010

Calendar ATM 445/645 Atmospheric Dynamics I (3 Credits),
Fall 2010

Working Calendar

Dates	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Week 1			2-Sept 2010 Class #1 Syllabus & Class Expectations Math Review (Scalars/Vectors, Vector Algebra, Scalar/Vector Fields, Coordinate Systems, Differentiation of Vectors)
Week 2	7-Sept 2010 Class #2 Math review continues (Del operator and it's uses, Taylor Series Expansion, Flow Kinematics)	8-Sept 2010 Class #3 Finish Math Review ( Line integrals, surface integrals, Lagrangian and Eularian reference frames, total Differentiation)	9-Sept 2010 Class #4 Solids-liquids-gases, Ideal gas law, Virtual temperature, Potential temperature HOMEWORK 1 DUE
Week 3	14-Sept 2010 Class #5 Potential Temperature, Static Stability (Buoyancy, Buoyancy frequency, restoring force), Adiabatic Lapse Rate	15-Sept 2010 Class #6 Assumptions made, Continuity Equation Derivation Class #6b Handout (learn on your own) Pressure gradient force, Viscous force, Hydrostatic balance, Hypometric equation, scale height)	16-Sept 2010 Class #7 Rotating reference frame, Centrifugal Force, Effective gravity, coriolis
Week 4	21-Sept 2010 Class #8 Rotating Reference Frame cont... HOMEWORK 2 DUE	22-Sept 2010 Class #9 Rotating Reference Frame, Thermodynamic energy equation	23-Sept 2010 Class #10 Thermodynamic energy equation, spherical coordinates, Navier stokes equations
Week 5	28-Sept 2010 Class #11 Pressure perturbation, Scale analysis of horizontal equations of motion, geostrophic approximation, rossby number HOMEWORK 3 DUE	29-Sept 2010 Class #12 Scale analysis of vertical equation of motion, Virtual potential temperature extra stuff	30-Sept 2010 Class #13 9:20-10:50 Room IARC 501 Exam 1
Week 6	5 Oct 2010 Class #14 Vertical coordinate transformations, Pressure coordinates in vertical, geostrophic balance in isobaric coordinates, continuity in isobaric coordinates	6 Oct 2010 No Class, make up next week	7 Oct 2010 No Class, make up next week
Week 7	12 Oct 2010 Class #15-16 Natural coordinates, Balanced Flows: Geostrophic, Cyclostrophic and inertialDOUBLE CLASS	13 Oct 2010 Class #17-18 Balanced Flows: Cyclostrophic (finish)& Gradient, Constraints on Higs, westward shift of surface features, trajectories vs streamlines DOUBLE CLASS	14 Oct 2010 Class #19-20 Boussinesq Approximation, Thermal wind, temperaure advection, Barotropic and Baroclinic atmospheres, vertical motion calculations DOUBLE CLASS
Week 8	19 Oct 2010 No Class, made up last week	20 Oct 2010 Class #21 Circulation Theorems, Solenoidal term, Circulation over area HOMEWORK 4 DUE	21 Oct 2010 Class #22 Stokes Theorem, Relative circulation
Week 9	26 Oct 2010 Class #23-24 9:15-11:15 AM 319 IARC Vorticity, Vorticity in natural coordinates, potential vorticity, zonal flow assymetry, vorticity equation Hand out Exam 2 Review Sheet DOUBLE CLASS	27 Oct 2010 Class #25 Loose ends, Flow over topography, Vorticity equation in pressure coordinates	28 Oct 2010 Class #26 Scale analysis of vorticity equation, vorticity in Barotropic fluids, Chapter's key point review
Week 10	2 Nov 2010 Class #27 Q-G approximation, Observed midlatitude atmosphere, Q-g momentum equation HOMEWORK 5 DUE	3Nov 2010 Class #28 Room 401 9:20-11AM Exam 2	4 Nov 2010 Class #29-30 9:15-11:15 AM Q-G equations, Q-G vorticity, Relative versus Planetary vorticity advection DOUBLE CLASS
Week 11	9Nov 2010 Relative versus Planetary vorticity magnitudes in idealized example Class #31	10Nov 2010 Class #32-33 9:15-11:15 Impact of terms in TEE and qgzeta, Geopotential Tendency equation, QGPV equation DOUBLE CLASS	11 Nov 2010 Class #34 Loose ends for Geopotential Tendency Equation (interpretation of terms), Finish QGPV, Omega Equation EXTRA NOTES ON CHAPTER 10, here
Week 12	16 Nov 2010 No Class, made up during last few weeks!	17 Nov 2010 No Class, made up during last few weeks!	18 Nov 2010 No Class, made up during last few weeks!
Week 13	23 Nov 2010 Class #35 classes cancelled at University due to 1" of rain (that froze upon hitting the ground). Homework 7 emailed	24 Nov 2010 Class #36 classes cancelled at University due to 1" of rain (that froze upon hitting the ground).	27 Nov 2010 Thanksgiving Break
Week 14	30 Nov 2010 Class #35 ageostrophic motion HOMEWORK 6 DUE Hand out Exam 3 Review Sheet	1 Dec 2010 Class #36 Wave basics and perturbation method	2 Dec 2010 Class #37 Rossby waves HOMEWORK 7 DUE Friday
Week 15	7 Dec 2010 Class #38-39 Room 501 9:15-11:15 AM Exam 3	8 Dec 2010 Class #40-42 9:00-11:30, probably 319 Marathon Class Project Presentations

Class Project Papers: The goal of the project is to apply principles learned in class to teach the class about the contents of these papers. You may need to trim topics covered for the longer papers. The talks will be 15 minutes with questions, so probably about 13+2.

Soumik Basu: B. Hoskins and Valdes, 1990: On the Existence of Strom Tracks, JAS. download here.

Kelcy Brunner: Holton, J.,P.H. Haynes, M.E.Mcintyre, A.R. Douglas, R.B. Rood, L. Pfister, 1995: STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE, Reviews of Geophysics. download here

Oliver Damman: Vilhelm Bjerknes, 1921: On the Dynamics of the Circular Vortex With Applications to the Atmosphere and Atmospheric Vortex and Wave Motions, from Geophysiske Publikasjoner Volume 2. download here

Brita Irving: Sassi, F., R. R. Garcia, B. A. Boville, and H. Liu, 2002: On temperature inversions and the mesospheric surf zone, J. Geophys.Res., 107(D19),4380, doi:10.1029/2001JD001525. download here

Vinay Kayetha: S. Solomon, R.W. Portmann, and D. W. J. Thompson, 2007: Contrasts between Antarctic and Arctic ozone depletion, PNAS. , download here

John Mayfield: BAINES, P.G. 1998: Downslope flows into a stratified environment - structure and detrainment. In Mixing and Dispersion in Stably Stratified Flows. Proc. 5th IMA Conference on Stratified Flows, Dundee. P.A. Davies, editor, 1-21, Clarendon Press, Oxford., download here

Paula Moreira: Bracegirdle, Thomas J.; Gray, Suzanne L., 2009: The Dynamics of a Polar Low Assessed Using Potential Vorticity Inversion, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 135: 880–893. download here

Jeanie Talbot: Qiu, Bo, 2003: Kuroshio Extension Variability and Forcing of the Pacific Decadal Oscillations: Responses and Potential Feedback. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33, 2465?2482. download here

Huy Tran: W. Gray, 1998: The Formation of Tropical Cyclones, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Physics. download here

Trang Tran: M. NOVITSKY, D. D. REIBLE, and B. M. CORRIPIO, 1992: "Modeling the dynamics of the land-sea breeze circulation for air quality modeling, Boundary Layer Meteorology. download here

Calendar ATM 445/645 Atmospheric Dynamics I (3 Credits), Fall 2010

Working Calendar

Calendar ATM 445/645 Atmospheric Dynamics I (3 Credits),
Fall 2010