Atmospheric Circulation in a nutshell Hot air rises (rains a lot) in the tropics Air cools and sinks in the subtropics (deserts) Poleward-flow is deflected.
Thunderstorms and Volcanic clouds—analogies Ashfall Grad Class Fall 2009 lecture #11.
Atmospheric Disturbances, Storms and Natural Hazards.
Chapter 15 The Dynamic Ocean. Factors Influencing Surface Ocean Currents The ocean's surface currents follow the general pattern of the world's major.
Midlatitude Cyclones Equator-to-pole temperature gradient tilts pressure surfaces and produces westerly jets in midlatitudes Waves in the jet induce divergence.
Chapter 10 Mid-latitude Cyclones Chapter 10 Mid-latitude Cyclones.
Investigating Mesoscale Precipitation Banding in Two East Coast Snowstorms Adam Frumkin.
Thunderstorms. Definition: a storm containing lightning and thunder. Associated with midlatitude cyclones, localized convection, orographic lifting and.
Fronts Chapter 17 Section 1 Pages 560-566 Chapter 17 Section 1 Pages 560-566.
Thursday May 26, 2011 (Review for Semester Final Exam – Day 4)
Coarse-graining and Entropy Production in a Climate Model - Part 3- Valerio Lucarini Klimacampus, Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg Department.
What is a ‘hurricane’? Where do they form? Why? Why do they move east to west rather than west to east? Why do they have names?!? And how do they pick.