ATM 316 - Dynamic Meteorology I, Fall 2022

Course information

Instructor: Prof. Robert Fovell
Office: 404 ETEC
Office phone: (518) 442-4479 (not a good way of contacting me)
E-mail: rfovell _at_ albany.edu (preferred contact method)
Zoom: https://albany.zoom.us/my/rfovell (by arrangement)

Syllabus

• Course syllabus. (Last revised: 8-21-2022)

Homeworks [removed]

Course materials

• Wallace and Hobbs Fig. 1.11
• Wallace and Hobbs Fig. 1.12
• Questions for thought (relating to figures above)
• Chapter 1 examples
• Hodograph from Bluestein and Jain
• K-H cloud example (Brian Tang)
• Roll cloud example
• 500 mb chart for 2015040912
• Surface map for 2007102112
• Wind gusts at Laguna Peak, CA
• Coriolis acceleration due to equatorward displacement
• Augmentation of Newton's 2nd law for Earth's rotation
• Centripetal acceleration proof
• Accelerations owing to sphericity
• Chapter 2 examples
• Midterm #1 SAMPLE EQUATIONS SHEET
• SLP example (PPTX)
• XKCD comic, modified (PNG)
• Surface chart 12Z Oct 30 2012
• Balanced flow
• The thermal wind
• Thermal wind concept figure
• OUN sounding from class
• Hurricane Rita (PPTX)
• Midterm #2 SAMPLE EQUATIONS SHEET (2020 version)
• 30 November 2016 upper air example (PPTX)
• Trajectories v. streamlines (PNG)
• Final exam SAMPLE EQUATIONS SHEET (2020 version)
• Final exam review questions (2020 version)

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