Lecture Week 3: Topics

All-Wave (Net) Radiation Budget

[REF: AJJ16 Ch 2 p 51-53]

• Earth-Atmosphere energy balance

Energy Balances

[REF: AJJ12 Ch 2 p 55-61; Ch 3 p 75-81 / AJJ16 Ch 2 p 51-57; Ch 3 p 72-82]

• convection - free and forced
• sensible and latent heat exchanges
• global and latitudinal energy balances
• typical situations by day and by night
• surface energy blance equation
• sign conventions
• Site-specific radiation budgets
• surface temperature [REF: AJJ16 - Active Figure 3.18 Daily Temperature Above the Ground]

Global Climate

[REF: AJJ12 - Ch 3 p. 83-84; Ch 10 p. 293-302 / AJJ16 Ch 3 p 78-80; Ch 10 p 280-288]

• Global surface temperature pattern - why?
• Global surface and upper level winds - why?
  • trade winds
  • ITCZ
  • doldrums, etc.
• Global precipitation - why?
• Single and three cell models of the atmosphere
  • Hadley cell
  • Ferrel cell
  • Polar cell
  • Active Figure 10.6
• Other factors affecting climate at a location
• Climate classification [REF: AJJ12 Ch 17 p 526-534 / AJJ16 Ch 16 p 472-485]

Weather Observation & Analysis Project

[REF: Wx Project Document]

• Review of requirements and format