MPO551: Introduction to Atmospheric Science
Instructor: Amy Clement
(aclement@rsmas.miami.edu)
Classroom: MSC 343
Time: MW 10:30am-11:45am
Instructor Office Hours: MW 11:45am-12:45pm in MSC 362
Teaching Assistant: Honghai Zhang
(hzhang@rsmas.miami.edu)
TA Office Hours: Thursday 11:45am-12:45pm, 2:45-4:45pm in MSC 319
Syllabus
Lecture1
Lecture2
Lecture3
Lecture4
Lecture5
Lecture6
Guest Lecture1(Dr. Albrecht)
Lecture7
Lecture8
Lecture9-10
Guest Lecture2(Dr. Atlas)
radiation_chem_wrapup
Guest Lecture3(Dr. Majumdar)
Guest Lecture4(Dr. Mapes)
Lecture12-Dynamics2
Lecture13-Boundarylayer
Lecture14-Climatedynamics1
Lecture15-Climatedynamics2
......
Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Skew T LnP Diagram(provided by Amanda Short)
UCAR (for satellite, surface, current soundings + map, models)
http://weather.cod.edu/forecast/(model products)
The cloud classification system
Reading assignment 1 for Wednesday, Aug 31
Homework#1 DUE September 12,2011
Homework#2 DUE September 28,2011
Homework#3 DUE October 26,2011
Answers to problem#4: Amanda Short
Anibal Herrera
Eric Jenks
Jenna King
Joshua Turner
Kimberly Chamales
Matt Onderlinde
Patricia Sanchez
Peng_Wang
Ryan Schuster
Sarah Larson
Stefano Rivella
Xiaofeng Wang
Yemi Adebiyi
Zoe Shoosmith
Shaun Dolk
Homework#4 DUE November
16,2011
Xiaofeng Wang
Climate Dynamics Project DUE Nov 28(Group1&2)/30(Group3)
,2011
Group2_Presentation
Group3_Presentation
cloud observation analysis (by Shaun Dolk)
1: Why does the Southern Hemisphere have little seasonality in the observed surface circulation field?
2: Why is the precipipation a maximum over the Kuroshio Extention in the boreal summer compared with the north Atlantic, which has a precip maximum in winter?
3: Why is the south Pacific warmer than the south Atlantic and Indian at ~50S?
4: Why does the Antarctic Ocean change from a sink to a source of CO2?
A paper on this question: Lovenduski, N.S., and T. Ito, 2009
5: What would happen to the atmosphere if the ocean did not transport heat?
wrapup answers during class and some references
Webster_1994
emanuel91
tropical cyclones
Geographic distribution of UV irradiance (provided by Yemi)
Held_Soden2006
Rodwell_Hoskins_2001
Trenberth_Fassulo_2009
Manabe_Wetherald_1967
Wood_2011
Clouds_Codes
CldAtl.p.41
CldAtl.p.47
CldAtl.p.53
Clement et al (2009)