Study Guide for final exam and solutions to Exam 2 are posted.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Mesoscale Meteorology

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes
  • Class 1: Presentation (13 Jan 2015)
  • Class 2: Presentation (15 Jan 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Chapter 1
• Supplemental reading
• • COMET: Definition of the Mesoscale
  • Vinnichenko (1970)
  • Orlanski (1975)
  • Fujita (1981)
  • Atkinson (1981), Chapter 1
  • Lin (2010), Chapter 1

Chapter 2: Mountain Forced Flows

2.1: Mountain waves, severe downslope winds, and other forced orographic phenomena

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part one
  • Class 3: Presentation (20 Jan 2015)
  • Lecture notes, part two
  • Derivation explanation for lecture 4 (22 Jan 2015)
  • Lecture notes, part three
  • Class 5: Presentation (27 Jan 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Chapter 6 (review general wave dynamics)
  • Markowski and Richardson, Chapter 12
• Supplemental reading
• • COMET: Mountain Waves and Downslope Winds
  • Downslope windstorm simulations
  • Lin (Section 3.5, pages 37-43)
  • Lin (Sections 5.1-5.4, pages 109-152)
  • Holton (Section 7.4, pages 196-204)
  • Holton (Section 9.4, pages 284-289)
  • Durran (Chapter 20 in Ray book)
  • Houze (pages 501-520)
  • Doyle et. al. (2000)
  • Limpasuvan et. al. (2007)

2.2: Blocking of the wind by the terrain

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part four
  • Class 6: Presentation (29 Jan 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Chapter 13

2.3: Orographic precipitation

• Lecture notes, part five
• Class 7: Presentation (3 Feb 2015)

Problem Set #1

• Assigned: Tuesday, February 3, 2015.
• Due: Tuesday, February 17, 2015
• Solutions

Chapter 3: Planetary Boundary Layer

3.1-3.3: PBL structure, evolution, the and nature of turbulent fluxes

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part one
  • Class 8: Presentation (5 Feb 2015)
  • Lecture notes, part two
  • Lecture notes, part three
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Chapter 4
• Supplemental reading
• • Stull, Chapter 1
  • Stull, Chapter 2
  • Stull, Chapter 3
  • Holton, Chapter 5

3.4: Drylines

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part four
  • Class 11: Presentation (17 Feb 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Section 5.2
• Supplemental reading
• • Convective Initiation along a Dryline: A High-Resolution Modeling Study

3.5: Low-level jet

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part five
  • Class 12: Presentation (19 Feb 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Section 4.7
• Supplemental reading
• • Blackadar (1957)

3.6-3.7: Land/Sea Breeze and Horizontal Convective Rolls

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part six
  • Class 14: Presentation (26 Feb 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Sections 5.4.1 and 4.4.2
• Supplemental reading
• • Idealized numerical simulation of a land/sea breeze

Exam #1

• To be held in class on Tuesday, February 24, 2015.
• Study Guide
• Solutions

Chapter 4: Convective Dynamics

4.1-4.2: Introduction to moist convection, single-cell storms

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part one
  • Class 15-16: Presentation (3-5 Mar 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Sections 8.1 and 8.2

4.3: Multi-cell thunderstorms

• Class Materials
• • Lecture notes, part two
  • Class 16-17: Presentation (5,10 Mar 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Sections 8.3 and 5.3.2
• Supplemental reading
• • Lin et al. (1998)
  • Lin and Joyce (2001)
  • Fovell and Tan (1998)

4.4: Squall lines

• Class Materials
• • Class 17: Presentation (10 Mar 2015)
  • Class 18: Presentation (12 Mar 2015)
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Section 9.2
• Supplemental reading
• • Rotunno, Klemp, Weisman (1988)

4.5: Bright bands, bow echoes, and mesoscale convective complexes

• Presentation
• Required reading
• • Markowski and Richardson, Sections 9.4 and 9.5.
• Supplementary readings:
• Weisman (1993, JAS) on the Genesis of Intense Bow Echos.
• Johns and Hirt (1987): Derechoes: Widespread Convectively Induced Windstorms.
• Johns (1993): Meteorological Conditions Assiciated with Bow Echo Development in Convective Storms
  
• Maddox, R. A., (1980), and Maddox, R. A. (1981) on MCC.

4.6: Supecell storms and dynamics

• Supercell stroms - Introduction
  • Bluestein Vol. II section 3.4.7; Houze section 8.4.
  • Weisman and Klemp (1982)
• Exam 2 Study Guide. Past Exam example
• Exam 2 solutions
• Grade distribution: 95-100 (4), 90-94(6), 85-89(14), 80-84(7), 75-79(8), 70-74(4), 60-69(4), 50-59(2).
  
  
• Thunderstorm Dynamics - Part I
  
  • Lecture notes: Vorticity and pressure equations and their applications
    • Klemp (1987, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics)
    • ARPS simulation of supercell storms with curved and straight hogographs.
      
• Thunderstorm Dynamics - Part II
  
  • Lecture notes: Helicity equations and their applications
  • Additional slides on storm relative winds, hodograph and storm-relative helicity
    
    • Doswell (1991, National Weather Digest).
    • McCaul et al writeup on helicity and hogographs
      
• COMET Module: A Convective Storm Matrix: Buoyancy/Shear Dependency
• Homework 3

4.7: Tornadoes and tornado dynamics

• Lecture notes
• Davis-Jone et al (2001) Review Paper
• Lee and Wilhemson (JAS 1997) paper on nonsupercell tornadogenesis.
• Links to high-resolution tornado simulation moive of Ming Xue

Chapter 5: Hurricanes

• Lecture notes
• Emanuel (1988, American Scientist)
• Emanuel (JAS, 1986)
• Final Exam Study Guide