EPS 290, Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics, Summer 2016

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

5/25, Nadir leads

• Tian and Kuang, Dependence of entrainment in shallow cumulus convection on vertical velocity and distance to cloud edge, GRL, 2016

6/1, Rusen leads

• Turner et al., A large increase in U.S. methane emissions over the past decade inferred from satellite data and surface observations, GRL, 2016

6/8, Nadir leads

• Cronin and Jansen, Analytic radiative-advective equilibrium as a model for high-latitude climate, GRL, 2016

6/15, Nadir leads

• Morrison et al., Resilience of persistent Arctic mixed-phase clouds, Nature Geo, 2012

6/22, with guest Robin Wordsworth

• Abiotic oxygen-dominated atmospheres on terrestrial habitable zone planets, AJL, 2014

6/29, Nadir leads

• Romps, Clausius-Clapeyron scaling of CAPE from analytical solutions to RCE, JAS, 2016

7/6, Wolfgang leads

• Wing and Cronin, Self-aggregation of convection in long channel geometry, QJRMS, 2016

7/13, Da leads

• Nishant et al., Radiative driving of shallow return flows from the ITCZ, JAMES, 2016

7/20, Rusen leads

• Gordon and Klein, Low-cloud optical depth feedback in climate models, JGR, 2014

7/27, Seeley leads

• Bony, et al., Thermodynamic control of anvil cloud amount, PNAS, 2016

8/3, Edman leads

• Muraki, Rotunno, and Morrison, Expansion of a holepunch cloud by a gravity wave front, JAS, 2016

8/17, Wolfgang leads

• Heymsfield et al., Formation and spread of aircraft-induced holes in clouds, Science, 2011