Meto 611 Dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans II

http://metosrv2.umd.edu/~carton/meto611

• Organizational details

• Course outline/calendar

• Course goals– Relationship to synoptic meteorology

Details 1

• Instructor:

– Jim Carton, 5-5365,room 2417, carton@atmos.umd.edu, http://www.meto.umd.edu/~carton/index.html, with help from Senya Grodsky, 5-5330, senya@atmos.umd.edu

• Schedule:

– Class time: MWF 11-11:50 CSS 2416

– Help session: Wednesday 1:30-2:30pm, room 2417 (if we need more space I will shift rooms).

– Problem sets due: Friday after they are assigned, except that they are due on Wednesday of a week with an examination

Details 2• Required text: 

– Gill, A.E., 1982: Atmosphere - Ocean Dynamics, Academic Press, New York, ISBN 0122835220. ($56 for the paperback version on Amazon.com) . I will follow the text fairly closely.

• Recommended reading: – Holton, J.R., 1992: An introduction to dynamic meteorology, 3rd edition,

Academic Press, New York, ISBN0-12-354355-X.  – Rosen-Cushman, B., 1994: Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,

Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-353301-8 – Howard B. Bluestein: Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes :

Observations and Theory of Weather Systems (text for meto600)• Grading:

– 11 problem sets 20%– 2 midterms 40%– 1 final exam 40%

Calendar – see handout

• Gravity waves: – external and internal

– Role in instability

– Role in response to forcing (adjustment)

• Tropical waves – Role in air/sea interaction

• Rossby Waves– Role in response to forcing (adjustment)

– Role in instability

Goals

In Meto610 you examined some of the dominant dynamical balances that occur in the atmosphere and ocean

In Meto611 you will examine how these balances change with time and how the systems respond to external forcing

Jupiter

Resonance without rotation

Same problem on a rotating earth

Instability of a buoyant jet

Relationship to synoptic meteorology

This course will briefly cover the whole topic of time-dependence (on scales of a few minutes to a few decades). You can think of synoptic meteorology as an economically important special application of some aspects of dynamics and one that you should become familiar with.