ATM 240: Global Atmospheric Circulations

Welcome to Global Atmospheric Circulations, a course on the general circulation of the atmosphere taught by Professor Richard Grotjahn at UC Davis. Please select topics from the menu below:

Textbook: Global Atmospheric Circulations, by R. Grotjahn, Oxford Univ. Press, 1993
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Course information for Winter 1998:

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A web page devoted to the textbook: Global Atmospheric Circulations may also be of interest to those who visit this site. The web site for the book contains some example problems and a current errata for the book.    

General Information:
1. Go to the welcome page for Richard Grotjahn.

2. Go to the Atmospheric Science Program home page.

3. You can send e-mail to me at my UCD account using:

  • grotjahn@ucdavis.edu .



    Lecture Outlines - Study Guides for Winter 1998
    Each guide page indicates the required reading from the text Global Atmospheric Circulations.
    Homework numbers are also indicated.

    Lecture Study Guides:

    #1   Introduction and deductions   8 January 1998

    #2   Land/Ocean and Radiation (part I)   13 January 1998

    #3   Radiation (part II) and "Glass Slab" Radiative Balance   15 January 1998   HW #1 due.

    #4   Meridional Heat Transport, [T], and Radiative Balance Model   20 January 1998

    #5   Radiative Convective Model, [u], [v], and [w]   22 January 1998   HW #2 due.

    #6   Hadley Updrafts, Angular momentum conservation #1, Pressure & [Z]   27 January 1998

    #7   Clouds & Moisture; Momentum budgeting   29 January 1998

    #8   Momentum maintenance; Momentum fluxes   3 February 1998

    #9   Momentum viewed from the [KE] equation (part 1)   5 February 1998

    #10   Momentum viewed from the [KE] equation (part 2); Summary   10 February 1998
    (Note: please see the Summary of Momentum Cycle web page.

      Midterm Exam   12 February 1998

    #11   Introduction to APE   17 February 1998

    #12   Global and limited volume APE   19 February 1998

    #13   Baroclinic conversion: closed domain and QG simplification   24 February 1998

    #14   CA and CK conversions, energy box diagrams, summary   26 February 1998
    (Note: please see the Summary of Energy Flow web page.

    #15   Zonal variations in: radiation, T, V (including jets)   3 March 1998

    #16   Zonal variations in: P, moisture, momentum & heat fluxes, storm tracks, Asian monsoon momentum   5 March 1998

    #17   Kuo-Eliassen equation (mean meridional cells)   10 March 1998

    #18   Eddy life cycles and their interaction with the mean flow (jet stream maxima)   12 March 1998

    #19   Review: Energetics, Eddy-Mean flow interactions, Application to satellite imagery   17 March 1998


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