Syllabus

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Schedule and announcement

We have covered:

Chapter 1, whole chapter
Chapter 2, whole chapter
Chapter 3, whole chapter
Chapter 4, whole chapter
Chapter 5, whole chapter
Chapter 6, whole chapter
Chapter 7, whole chapter
Chapter 8, Sec 8.1-8.3   

The scope of oral exam is all material from Chapter 1-7
(All homework problems except the last 2 problems in HW6.)

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Typed slides

Solar radiation

Solar and terrestrial radiation

Atmospheric greenhouse effect

Radiative equilibrium and vertical profile of temperature

Hydrostatic balance

Potential temperature

Potential temperature and static stability

Convection and buoyancy oscillation

Adiabatic lapse rate and static stability

Effect of moisture on convection

θe and saturated adiabatic lapse rate

Coriolis effect

Governing equations in the rotating frame

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Homework and Project

All homework assignments are due at start of class on the due dates.
Please submit hard copy of your work, including the printout 
of the code(s) used in the assignment.

Homework #1, due 4:35 PM, Wednesday, February 6
Solution

Homework #2, due 4:35 PM, Wednesday, February 20
Data for Homework #2
Matlab code for reading the data
Solution

Homework #3, due 4:35 PM, Wednesday, March 13
Solution

Homework #4, due 4:35 PM, Wednesday, April 10

Minor corrections made on Prob 1 and 2
Prob 1:         

Prob 2, Eq. (5):

Homework #5, due 4:35 PM, Wednesday, April 17

Minor remarks (in blue) added to Prob 5. This is only for explaining the
background and does not change anything you need to do for the problem.

Solution

Homework #6, due 4:00 PM, Wednesday, May 1

Term project, due 4:00 PM, Wednesday, May 1
Guide on Matlab netCDF functions
netCDF file used in the Guide
NOAA ESRL/PSD data archive website

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Matlab

Basic Matlab programming

Links to individual matlab example codes

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