Teaching

ATSC 5014 Graduate Atmospheric Dynamics

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024

This course rigorously introduces students to the governing laws of atmospheric motion beginning with Newton's Second Law, covering:

• Vector basics

• Newton's Second Law

• The forces relevant for atmospheric physics

• Navier-Stokes in spherical coordinates

• The static atmosphere and the hydrostatic approximation

• Scale analysis

• Pure flow types in natural coordinates

• The ageostrophic wind

• Mass conservation

• Thermal Wind

• Barotropic versus baroclinic atmospheres

• Vorticity and circulation

• The vorticity budget equation

• Barotropic potential vorticity

• Thermal vorticity

• Exteernal gravity waves

• Internal gravity waves

• Internal-inertia gravity waves

• Rossby waves