Course Identification

Guided reading course: Advanced topics in atmospheric dynamics
20192042

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. Yohai Kaspi
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Course Schedule and Location

2019
Second Semester
Wednesday, 11:15 - 13:00, FGS, Rm 4
31/03/2019

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Chemical Sciences: Guided Reading Course; Elective; 2.00 points
Chemical Sciences (Materials Science Track): Guided Reading Course; Elective; 2.00 points

Comments

Students are required to attend all course meetings, read the assigned readings for each class and present the assigned reading in 2-3 of the meetings.

The first lecture will be held on 31/3 16:15-18:00

Prerequisites

At least one advanced graduate level atmosphere/ocean fluid dynamics course.

Restrictions

10

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Obligatory

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

50%
50%

Evaluation Type

Seminar

Scheduled date 1

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

3

Syllabus

  1. Baroclinic instability theory
  2. Wave mean flow interaction
  3. 2D turbulence theory
  4. Geostrophic turbulence
  5. PV dynamics and invertability
  6. Storm track dynamics
  7. The role of water vapor in extratropical dynamics

Schedule: 

Sunday April 14th 14:15: Lorenz 1955. Pexioto and Oort have a textbook version of this work.

Wednesday April 17th 11:15: Phillips 1954 (I didn’t originally have this paper, but the 2 layer formulation is necessary for understanding several of the papers below). You can find cleaner versions in Vallis and Pedlosky.

Sunday April 28th 14:15: Pedlosky 1970. See also in Pedlosky’s book chapter 7.

Wednesday May 1st 11:15: Rhines 1975.

Sunday May 5th 14:15: Stone 1978.

Sunday May 12th 14:15: Held 1978.

 

Tentatively- for the next meetings:

15/5, 29/5, 5/6, 12/6, 30/6, 3/7, 10/7

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of advanced topics (research level) in atmospheric dynamics.

Reading List

  1. Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, G. K. Vallis, Cambridge Press, 2006
  2. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, J. Pedlosky, Springer, 1987

Website

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