Atmospheric Sciences 441/503 Fall 2010
Atmospheric Motions I
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Date
Topic Reading
Lecture Notes Assignment Due
9/29
10/1
Intro & Fun. Forces
Gravity & Viscosity

1.1-1.5.2
intro slides
chapter 1


10/4
10/6
10/8x
Rotation
continued
Hydrostatics
1.5.3

1.6 (skip 1.6.3)

Coriolis slides


HW1
10/11
10/13
10/15
Momentum
Scale analysis
Continuity
2.1-2.2
2.3-2.4
2.5
chapter 2

HW2
10/18
10/20
10/22
Thermo Energy
Dry atm, Buoyancy
Review
2.6
2.7


HW3 boxmodel.m
10/25x
10/27x
10/29x
Exam
Isobaric coord
Balanced Flow

3.1
3.2

chapter 3
(no office hrs M, Tu)
Nothing due
natural.m
11/1
11/3
11/5
BF cont
Thermal Wind
Vertical Motion

3.4
3.5


HW4
11/8
11/10x
11/12
Circulation
Vorticity
Potential Vorticity
4.1
4.2
4.3
chapter 4

HW5
11/15
11/17x
11/19x
Vorticity Eq
Review
Exam
4.4-4.5



(no office hrs Tu)
HW6
11/22
11/24
11/26
More on vorticity
Trip to GFD Lab, OSB 107
day after Thanksgiving






11/29
12/1
12/3
Streamfunction exercise
QG vorticity
more on QG vorticity
6.1-6.2
6.3.1
chapter 6

matlab files used in class


12/6
12/8
12/10
Trip to GFD Lab, OSB 107
Tendency
Review

6.3 & 6.3.1



HW7
12/13
Comprehensive
Final Exam


8:30am