ATSC 404 · Dynamic Meteorology

Instructor

Christian Schoof

TA Liam Buchart

Textbook

Required: J.R. Holton "An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology", 4th edition, Academic Press, 2004. (PDF available online, see Syllabus) 

Or: J.R. Holton & G. J. Hakim "An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology", 5th edition, Academic Press, 2013. 532 pp

Required: online course notes (see below)

Course Content

Division of marks:
Assignments - 40%
Quizzes/Homework/Class participation - 10%
Midterm exam- 10%
Final exam- 40%

Mid-Term Examination - tbd

Assignments:

I expect to set 4 to 6 assignments in this course. They will be set on Fridays and wil be due at the end of class on the following Friday. No marks for late assignments.

Office hours

Wednesday 2-3 pm, EOS-South 356. Contact me in advance if you can't make this but need to see me.

Lecture notes:

• ATSC404 Conservation law lecture notes
• Supplementary reading on conservation laws (not required but may clarify, some of these are also referenced in the ATSC404 notes): EOSC352 notes on conservation laws (using a different approach involving Lagrangian volumes) EOSC352 notes on subscript notation for vectors and tensors EOSC352 notes on momentum conservation EOSC352 notes on angular momentum conservation EOSC352 expanded notes on heat equation (covers mechanical work done by viscous and inviscid fluid flows)
• ATSC404 cross product and curl lecture notes
• ATSC404 rotating frame lecture notes
• Supplementary reading on coordinate changes (not required): EOS 352 notes on transformation of scalars, vectors and tensors under coordinate changes
• ATSC404 lecture notes on linearization, waves and scaling
• Supplementary reading on wave solutions (not required): EOS 352 notes on Fourier series
• ATSC404 lecture notes on internal gravity waves and stability
• ATSC404 lecture notes on shallow atmospheres
• ATSC404 lecture notes on vorticity and quasi-geostrophic dynamics
• ATSC404 lecture notes on oocean dynamics
• ATSC404 lecture notes on Rossby waves and baroclinic instability
• Rossby wave problem 1 answer, page 1page 2page 3

Course information, practice exams etc.:

• course information sheet

Midterm:

Homework:

• Math quiz, due Monday January 18th

Assignments: