# Handouts

Check here throughout the term for extra assigned reading, links to figures shown in lecture, and other handouts.
A password will be needed to access some of the reading material. It will be given in class.

- [Chapter 1 of Martin, *Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Dynamics: a first course*](http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/brose/classes/ATM500_Fall2016/readings/MartinChap1.pdf) *A good review of mathematical concepts needed for the study of atmospheric dynamics.*

- [Physical Problem Solving: A Tutorial](http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/brose/classes/ATM500_Fall2016/readings/AtmosThermo_ProblemSolving.pdf), Appendix B from G.W. Petty, *A First Course in Atmospheric Thermodynamics*.
 *This article contains really excellent advice that will serve you very well in this subject (or any serious physical science).*

 - [Vertical structure of the "Standard Atmosphere"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Standard_Atmosphere#/media/File:Comparison_US_standard_atmosphere_1962.svg)
 - [Taylor Column demo (the Hockey Puck experiment)](https://youtu.be/mQU-viJGOB4)
 - [Thermal Wind demo with ice bucket](https://youtu.be/GFrZarxnMXE)
 - {download}`Midterm review notes </review_notes/MidtermReview.pdf>`
 - Code used for in-class simulations (links to code repositories on github)
  	- [Shallow water geostrophic adjustment](https://github.com/brian-rose/PyRsw). Checkout the git branch `py3` to run the code under Python 3. Then, from the `examples` directory, run `python example_1D_geoadjust.py`.
    - [pyqg package for quasi-geostrophic simulations](https://pyqg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
- [Topographic Rossby Wave demo (flow over a bump on a beta plane)](https://youtu.be/dugQcZ3-Ci8)
- Internal Gravity Wave demos
	- [Animation of buoyancy perturbations in a Boussinesq fluid waves](https://atmos.washington.edu/~durrand/animations/stand505/standing1.psp) (from Dale Durran, University of Washington)
	- [Shadow visualization of internal gravity waves in a saltwater tank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQD_gM3M24) (from the University of Washington Atmospheric Science Outreach team)
- {download}`End-of-semester review notes </review_notes/SemesterReview.pdf>`