Announcements
Presentation ScheduleWed. Nov. 20: Orrison and Fandrich; Leicht and Mitchell; Dotterer and He
Mon. Nov. 25: Cardinale and Zhu; Capute and El Riachy; Paquette and Main
Assignments
Problem Set 1
Lab 1 (Particle tracker Python code)
Problem Set 2
Term Paper Instructions
Lab 2
Lecture Slides and Handouts
Earth's Radiation Budget
Observed Circulation
Decomposition of Circulation
Angular Momentum
Energy
Midterm Review
Hadley Circulation
Planetary Waves
Storm Tracks
Special Topic: Arctic amplification, jet waviness, and extreme weather
Supplementary Material
Tapio Schneider's Annual Review of The General Circulation
Dave Randall's General Circulation Notes
Climate Reanalyzer
Literature Marshall et al. (2014): The ocean's role in setting the mean position of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
Stephens and L'Ecuyer (2015): The Earth's energy balance
Huang et al. (1999): The balance of global angular momentum in a long-term atmospheric data set
Trenberth and Stepaniak (2003): Covariability of components of poleward atmospheric energy transports on seasonal and interannual timescales
Trenberth and Caron (2001): Estimates of meridional atmosphere and ocean heat transports
Trenberth and Stepaniak (2004): The flow of energy through the Earth's climate system
Trenberth and Fasullo (2017): Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth's energy locally
Marques et al. (2008): Global atmospheric energetics from NCEP-Reanalysis 2 and ECMWF-ERA40 Reanalysis
Pauluis (2007): Sources and sinks of available potential energy in a moist atmosphere
Bowley et al. (2018): Synoptic-scale zonal available potential energy increases in the Northern Hemisphere
Held and Hou (1980): Nonlinear axially symmetric circulations in a nearly inviscid atmosphere
Lindzen and Hou (1988): Hadley circulations for zonally averaged heating centered off the equator
Dima and Wallace (2003): On the seasonality of the Hadley cell
Walker and Schneider (2006): Eddy influences on Hadley circulations: Simulations with an idealized GCM
Schneider and Bordoni (2008): Eddy-mediated regime transitions in the seasonal cycle of a Hadley circulation and implications for monsoon dynamics
Pauluis et al. (2008): The global atmospheric circulation on moist isentropes
Hoskins and Karoly (1981): The steady linear response of a spherical atmosphere to thermal and orographic forcing
Held et al. (2002): Northern winter stationary waves: Theory and modeling
Brayshaw et al. (2009): The basic ingredients of the North Atlantic storm track. Part I: Land-sea contrast and orography
Francis and Vavrus (2012): Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes
Barnes (2013): Revisiting the evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in midlatitudes