ATM 400: Fall 2008

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Instructor: Heather Archambault (ES 234, heathera@atmos.albany.edu, 442-4515)

· Course syllabus

· Research project overview

Class Links

Tues 26 Aug

· American Meteorological Society webpage

· Bosart 2003 (Weather and Forecasting)

Figs. 2 and 3 from Bosart (2003)

· NCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL)

Satellite page

Surface observations page

· UAlbany DEAS surface potential temperature and mixing ratio maps

Thurs 28 Aug

· Reviews of vector math and the total derivative

· UNIX and NMAP primers (courtesy of Nick Metz and Alan Srock)

· HW #1 (Due 4 Sep)

Thurs 4 Sep

· HW #2 (Due 11 Sep)

Tues 16 Sep

· ESRL Interactive Plotting page (for lab assignment due Thurs 18 Sep)

Tues 7 Oct

· HW #5 (Due 16 Oct)

Thurs 13 Nov

· Quiz on Tues 18 Nov

· HW #7 (Due 20 Nov)

· The Quasi-Geostrophic Approximation

· Development of the QG Vorticity Equation

Thurs 20 Nov

· The QG Thermodynamic Equation (corrected)

Tues 25 Nov

· Thermal Vorticity

· The QG Height Tendency Equation

Tues 2 Dec

· Tom Galarneau’s QG diagnostics webpage

· Quiz on Thurs 4 Dec (on thermal vorticity and the QG thermodynamic equation only)

Thurs 4 Dec

· The QG Omega Equation

· Cold air damming (source of extra credit question on final)

Mon 15 Dec

· The Vorticity Equation (from earlier in the semester)

· Final exam topics