ATMO.4150 Atmospheric Dynamics (Formerly 85.415)

Id: 007788 Credits: 3-3

Description

Explores dynamics of rotating fluids in a rotating reference frame. Conservation laws (momentum, continuity, and thermodynamics energy equations). Scale analysis, geostrophic balance. Applications to balanced flow, streamlines and trajectories, thermal wind, vertical motion, and surface pressure tendency. Circulation and vorticity, potential vorticity equation, barotropic and baroclinic vorticity.

Prerequisites

ENVI.2020 Earth Systems: Atmosphere and Oceans, and MATH.1310 Calculus I.

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