SYNOPTIC LABORATORY I: THE FRONTAL CYCLONE

ATMOCN 751

Application of fundamental dynamics and thermodynamics to cyclone and frontal theory; case studies illustrating the structure and evolution of the frontal cyclone; diagnostic consideration of vertical motions, frontogenesis and potential inversion; computational analysis of fundamental diagnostic equations, analysis of vertical cross sections.

ATMOCN 453

Local wind systems, thunderstorms, mesoscale convection systems, interactions with synoptic scale weather. Analysis, prediction, nowcasting and observation of mesoscale weather, including interpretation of satellite and radar information.

ATMOCN 801

Advanced level subjects in dynamics, synoptics, climate-dynamics and atmospheric physics including recent advances.

ATMOCN 753

Synthesizes the fundamentals of atmospheric dynamics, thermodynamics and microphysics to explain the theory behind the structure, evolution and prediction of microscale, mesoscale and cloud scale weather. Learn the dynamics, and thermodynamics of mesoscale, fogs, cumulus, and severe storms (including tornadoes), mountain meteorology and convective tropical weather systems (including hurricanes and typhoons) and application of multi-scale numerical methods and models for analysis and prediction.

ATMOCN 722

Advanced treatment of the fundamentals of tropical meteorology, including moist thermodynamic processes, tropical deep convection, convective quasi-equilibrium, the weak temperature gradient approximation, the mean tropical circulations, convectively coupled waves, and tropical cyclones.