ATOC4720 Lecture Notes

0. Overview

1. Fundamental in Meteorology

0. Overview

1. Fundamental in Meteorology

2. Thermodynamics (SkewT/logp diagram; Saturation vapor pressure curve)

3a. Cloud Microphysics (Warm clouds)

3b. Cloud and Precipitation Measurements

3c. Cloud Microphysics (Cold clouds)

4a. Atmospheric Dynamics

          (Movies, Courtesy: http://www.meted.ucar.edu/EUMETSAT/vorticity/index.htm: Wind Shear, Tangential Velocity, 2-dim wind, PVA_NVA)

4b. Atmospheric Dynamics

4c. Atmospheric Dynamics

5. Synoptic-scale phenomena

6. Thunderstorms