Class number 12/27 Mon Feb. 28, 2011
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Loose ends from last class?
Homework: check in
Starting to think about projects?
Today's material: 1D view of
convecting layers.
- Boussinesq equation set notes
(3p pdf)
- Randall notes on
Anelastic
and Boussinesq equation sets
- Boussinesq
energy equations (5p pdf) for convecting fluid
- 1D views of convecting layers: some M&R figures from Ch. 4
and supplements.
- Spectral gap? no! (ppt
from Harm Jonker, Delft) (much longer version)
- Troposphere as a boundary layer (convectively maintained or
turbulent layer) -- at how large a scale might this idea make sense?
- RCE for the whole world; whole tropics; whole convecting
tropics?
- How long is long enough? Lenschow
et
al. 1994 pdf
Open questions, assignments, and
loose
ends for next class:
Do
it
on
the
Wiki!
Testable questions about today's
material:
Do
it
in
the
Wiki!