ATM 622: General Circulation of the Atmosphere

A blurb about the course with contact info

Course info

• Syllabus
• Schedule
• How to use this book

Lectures

• 1. Earth’s radiation budget
• 2. Computing seasonal and monthly means from CFSR data
• 3. The observed circulation
• 4. Decompositions of the circulation
• 5. Angular Momentum Budget
• 6. Energy Budget
• 7. Available Potential Energy
• 8. Theories of the Hadley circulation
• 9. Effect of eddies on the zonal mean circulation

Assignments and labs

• 1. Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation Budget and Meridional Energy Transport

The stuff at the end

• Benchmarking a data-intensive operation
• Benchmarking a data-intensive operation (snow version)
• References