Department of Physics

19406  Atmospheric Dynamics

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS250/        

Course Content

• Introductory part. Basic equations. Full form and simplifications. Vorticity-divergence. Streamfunction and velocity potential. Helmhotz decomposition.
• Coordinate systems in the atmosphere. Isentropic analysis. Potential vorticity. Conservation and invertibility.
• Ageostrophic wind. Applications.
• Thermodynamic equation. Vorticity equation. Applications.
• Equation of barometric tendency. Geopotential  tendency equation. Applications.
• Omega equation. Quasi-geostrophic form. Q vectors. Applications.
• Quasi-geostrophic approximation. Basic model of baroclinic disturbances. Cyclogenesis.
• Atmospheric waves in small and large scale. Rossby waves. Internal and external gravity waves. Taylor-Goldstein equation.