Class Materials

• AT604 - Atmospheric Modeling

• AT605 - Atmospheric Circulation

• AT745 - Advanced General Circulation

Quick Studies

• The Anelastic and Boussinesq Approximations (175KB)
• Bulk Boundary-Layer Models (132KB)
• The Composition of Air (68KB)
• Dimensional Analysis, Scale Analysis, and Similarity Analysis (21KB)
• Empirical Orthogonal Functions (15KB)

• Eddy Kinetic Energy (182KB)
• Energy Integrals (48KB)
• Fourier Series (88KB)
• The Gent-McWilliams Theory of Mixing Along Isentropic Surfaces (30KB)
• Group Velocity (68KB)

• Hermite Polynomials (123KB)
• Higher Order Closure (95KB)
• The Laplace Tidal Equations and Atmospheric Tides (680KB)
• Conservation of Momentum on a Rotating Sphere (120KB)
• Derivation of the Navier-Stokes Equation (58KB)

• The Hydrostatic and Quasistatic Approximations (15KB)
• Positive Dissipation (40KB)
• Reynolds Averaging (200KB)
• The Shallow Water Equations (133KB)
• Separation of Variables (56KB)

• Spherical Harmonics and Related Topics (1MB)
• Taylor Series (71KB)
• Vectors, Vector Calculus, and Coordinate Systems (132KB)
• Vertical Coordinate Transformations (64KB)
• Virtual Temperature (88KB)

• Why Are Cumulus Updrafts Narrow? (68KB)