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 A good review of mathematical concepts needed for the study of atmospheric dynamics.
Physical Problem Solving: A Tutorial, 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).
Code used for in-class simulations (links to code repositories on github)
Shallow water geostrophic adjustment. Checkout the git branch
py3
to run the code under Python 3. Then, from theexamples
directory, runpython example_1D_geoadjust.py
.
Topographic Rossby Wave demo (flow over a bump on a beta plane)
Internal Gravity Wave demos
Animation of buoyancy perturbations in a Boussinesq fluid waves (from Dale Durran, University of Washington)
Shadow visualization of internal gravity waves in a saltwater tank (from the University of Washington Atmospheric Science Outreach team)