Fundamentally unbalanced motions. Construction and analysis of surface and upper air charts. Interpretation of satellite data, cloud and air mass classification, and introduction to weather radar. Climatology of formation and movement of cyclone. Design and interpretation of numerical forecast models.
Emphasis is placed on oral diagnostic weather discussion and forecast presentation.
Emphasis on quantitative interpretation of the various hydrodynamic equations which characterize the behavior and forcing of weather patterns. Oral discussion and forecast. Schematic and numerical models of clouds and storms with emphasis on hailstorms. Introduction to numerical modeling of geophysical fluid dynamics, applications. Sources, lifetimes, transport of gases and aerosols.