School of Science
Department of Physics
19406
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.