First 3 weeks (5 classes, minus MLK day): Introduction, the problem of multiple scales, Fourier analysis.
Page of materials for FFT homework (HW1)
Feb 4 – convection concepts (dry case): layer adjustment vs. plumes vs. parcels
Feb 6 – HW1; Boussinesq eq. set, convection as energy source d(KE)/dt = [w’b’]
Feb 11 – cu vertical development: CuPIDO (incl. radar, moist buoyancy – HW2)
Feb 13 – CuPIDO case study
Feb 18 – CuPIDO – heated mountain flows
Feb 20 – other terrain breezes; role of rotation (latitude 30 resonance)
Feb 25 – precipitation development, fall, evap -> downdrafts, multicell storms
Feb 27 – Guest lecture (Neal Johnson, physics) on complexity
Mar 1 – Supercell convection, vorticity,
Mar 3 – tornadoes
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Mar 17 – waves and balanced vortices from Q in a stratified rotating fluid (HW3)
Mar 19 – observed MCVs (and bow echoes)
Mar 24 – MCSs more generally
Mar 26 – squall lines and other prefrontal/ frontal precip
Apr 2 – frontogenesis-driven ascent, Q vectors
Apr 4 – symmetric instability and banded precipitation
Apr 7 – US great plains storm met: dryline, LLJ, wet landscape feedbacks
Apr 9 – mountain precip and convection – Houze guest lecture
Apr 14 – Forecasting the mesoscale
Apr 16 – Forecasting
Apr 21 – student presentations
Apr 23 – student presentations