Class number 5/27 Feb. 2, 2011 Buoyancy & parcel
processes... continued... and assign HW1
Scanned notes from Sil for this class
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Loose ends from last class
Starting to think about projects?
Today's material:
More about buoyancy and thermodynamics
From buoyancy to vertical momentum dynamics: book stuff (links repeated
from
class 2 & 3)
Cumulus clouds general material powerpoint
pdf_of_powerpoint
Size distribution of cumuli - Zhao and DiGiralmo 2007
How to invert (entropy, qt, p) to get density (for buoyancy):
HOMEWORK Wiki
Thermo routines for homework (entropy inversion): Matlab (tar file) IDL
(ask)
Wyoming
soundings site - skewT or text files
A bundle of about 1700
COARE (west
Pacific) soundings in a .nc file
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!
