| Atmospheric Sciences 340 Professor R. A. Houze
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| Instructor | Text |
Problem
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Tests | Class Notes | Current weather | Skew
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| Syllabus |
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| Topics |
Reading |
| Part
I: Basic Thermodynamics |
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| Thermodynamics
terms and conditions Ideal Gas Law Molecular weight |
Wallace and Hobbs pp 63-66 |
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First Law
Joule's Law Heat Capacity and Specific Heat Internal Energy and Enthalpy |
WH 72-75 |
| Pressure-volume diagram for an ideal
gas Isothermal and adiabatic processes |
WH 75-77 |
| Cyclical and reversible processes Carnot Cycle Entropy |
WH 93-95 |
| Part
II: Atmospheric Thermodynamics |
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| Composition of dry air Partial Pressure Dalton's Law Apparent molecular weight Ideal gas law for dry air |
Houze's
Thermodynamics Notes (pp 1-6) WH 66-69 |
| Concept of an air parcel Dry adiabatic lapse rate |
WH 72, 76-77 |
| Static stability of dry air Inversions Gravity waves Buoyancy and instability |
WH 88-91 |
| Potential temperature |
WH 77-78 |
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| Introduction
to atmospheric thermodynamic diagrams |
WH 78-79 |
| Clausius
Clapeyron equation Measures of water vapor in air Ideal gas equation for pure water vapor and for moist air Virtual temperature |
WH 80, 97-99 |
| Saturation
vapor pressure and saturation mixing ratio Relative humidity, dew point, and lifting condensation level (LCL) Moist adiababatic processes First law for saturated parcel displacements |
WH 80-85 |
| Moist
adiabatic lapse rate Adiabatic liquid water content Equivalent potential temperature |
WH 85-86 |
| Wet
bulb temperature Wet-bulb potential temperature Equivalent potential temperature |
WH
83-84, 86-87 |
| Conditional
and potential instability Level of free convection (LFC) Convective available potential energy (CAPE) Convective inhibition (CIN) |
WH
88-93, 344-347 Example Soundings |
| Part
III: Cloud Physics |
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| Cloud nomenclature Cloud formation processes |
Cloud
Physics Notes Cloud Nomenclature |
| Second Law of Thermodynamics Carnot's Theorems Entropy |
WH 95-97, 100-101 |
| Homogenous nucleation of cloud
droplets Kelvin's equation |
WH 209-212 |
| Heterogeneous nucleation
of cloud droplets Koehler curves CN and CNN |
WH 212-215 |
| Growth of cloud droplets by
condensation |
WH 221-224 |
| Growth of cloud drops to raindrops by
coalescence |
WH 224-230 |
| Ice particle nucleation Ice enhancement |
WH 223-228 |
| Growth of ice particles by vapor
deposition Ice particle habits |
WH 228-241 |
| Riming and aggregation |
WH 241-245 |
| Cloud electrification and
lightning |
WH 252-259 |
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