Instructors:
Professor James Holton
408A
Atmospheric Sciences Bldg., 543-4010
holton@atmos.washington.edu
and
Professor
David Battisti
718 Atmospheric Scienes Bldg., 543-2019
david@atmos.washington.edu
Meeting Times: T,Th, 10:30-11:50AM, 406ATG
Grading:Course is graded CR/NC. To receive credit each student must give a 25 minute presentation on a topic related to planetary-scale flow, to be approved by the instructors.
Course Outline:
I. Introduction: Review of potential vorticity, Rossby waves, Charney-Drazin theory.
II. Zonally symmetric flows:Eulerian mean, transformed Eulerian mean, Isentropic mean.
III. Planetary wave and zonal flow interaction: Sudden stratospheric warmings.
IV. Equatorial wave and zonal flow interactions: The Quasi-biennial oscillation.
V. Global aspects of trace constituent transport and stratosphere-Tropophere exchange.