EPS 290, Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics, Summer 2015

Overview

This course covers current and classic papers in atmospheric dynamics with an eye towards aiding students involved in graduate-level research projects.

Time

Wednesdays at 9:30

Location

377 McCone Hall

Syllabus

5/13, Edman leads

• Kim and Alexander, Direct impacts of waves on tropical cold-point tropopause temperature, GRL, 2015

5/19, Suqin leads

• Emanuel and Sobel, Response of tropical sea surface temperature, precipitation, and tropical cyclone-related variables to changes in global and local forcing, JAMES, 2015

5/27, Nadir leads

• Romps and Charn, Sticky thermals: Evidence for a dominant balance between buoyancy and drag in cloud updrafts, JAS, 2015

6/3, Da leads

• Tan et al., Increases in tropical rainfall driven by changes in frequency of organized deep convection, Nature, 2015

7/1, Edman leads

• Voigt and Shaw, Circulation response to warming shaped by radiative changes of clouds and water vapour, Nature Geoscience, 2015

7/8, Seeley leads

• Lin et al., Is the Tropical Atmosphere in Convective Quasi-Equilibrium?, J Climate, 2015

7/15, Suqin leads

• Risi, Bony, and Vimeux, Influence of convective processes on the isotopic composition (d18O and dD) of precipitation and water vapor in the tropics: 2. Physical interpretation of the amount effect, JGR, 2008

7/22, Edman leads

• McCoy et al., Natural aerosols explain seasonal and spatial patterns of Southern Ocean cloud albedo, Science Advances, 2015

8/12, Wolfgang leads

• Wing and Emanuel, Physical mechanisms controlling self-aggregation of convection in idealized numerical modeling simulations, JAMES, 2014