ATM 210 - Atmospheric Structure, Thermodynamics, and Circulation, Fall 2023

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)
TAs: Jade Cai (jcai5 _at_ albany.edu) and Rachel Eldridge (reldridge2 _at_ albany.edu)

Syllabus

• Course syllabus. (Last revised: 10-26-2023)

Quizzes

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Homeworks

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Reference materials

Chapter 1

• Some slides for Chapter 1 (PPTX) (posted 8/23/23)
  
• Standard atmosphere (PDF) (posted 8/27/23)
  
• Hydrostatic and hypsometric equations (PDF) (posted 8/29/23)
  

Chapter 2

• Some slides for Chapter 2 (PPTX) (posted 9/5/23)
  
• Some practice problems for Chapters 1-2 (PDF) (posted 9/8/23)
  

• The air parcel and dry adiabatic lapse rate (PDF) (posted 9/24/23)
  
• Three important lapse rates (PDF) (posted 9/24/23)
  
• Approaches to saturation (PDF) (posted 9/24/23)
  

• Metastability (PPTX) (posted 10/3/23)
  
• Sounding example (PDF) (posted 10/10/23)
  
• Fogs (PDF) (posted 10/10/23)
  
• Clouds summary (PPTX) (posted 10/13/23)
  
• Waves over Nevada (PNG) (posted 10/20/23)
  

• Coriolis force (PDF) (posted 10/18/23)
  
• Tropical cyclone tracks 2007-2010 (PDF) (posted 10/20/23)
  
• NASA satellite picture (JPG) (posted 10/23/23)
  
• Atmospheric circulation (PDF) (posted 10/24/23)
  
• Katrina, centripetal force, and spin (PDF) (revised 11/6/23)
  
• Some gradient wind examples (PDF) (posted 11/13/23)
  
• Vertical wind shear and jets (PDF) (posted 11/13/23)
  
• Supercell and tornado rotation [without animations] (PDF) (posted 11/17/23)
  
• Extratropical cyclone life cycle (PDF) (posted 11/26/23)
  
• The elusive polar jet (PDF) (posted 11/27/23)
  
• The elusive polar jet (PDF) (posted 11/27/23)
  
• Hurricane structure (PDF) (posted 11/29/23)
  

Summary materials

• Conceptual summary (PDF) (posted 12/1/23)
  

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