Overview: Follow the Energy Energy flows downhill from hot to cold Earths energy budget Definitions: Weather vs Climate Predictability.
4.2 Moist air thermodynamics (Reading Text 3.5-3.7, p79-101) Reading: Trenberth et al. 2005 Climate dynamics, S for water vapor increase with temperature.
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Hurricane Dynamics 101 Roger K. Smith University of Munich.
HURRICANE The ancient Tainos tribe of Central America called their god of evil “Huracan.” The Carib Indians adopted this name for the storm.
Elevated Mixed Layers and their Role in Significant Severe Thunderstorm Episodes in the Northeastern U.S. Michael L. Ekster NOAA/National Weather Service.
Excitation of rainfall over the Pacific Warm Pool An alternative view? R.E. Carbone 1,2 and Yanping Li 2,3 N ational Center for Atmospheric Research 1.
EXPLORING LINKAGES BETWEEN PLANT- AVAILABLE SOIL MOISTURE, VEGETATION PHENOLOGY AND CONVECTIVE INITIATION By Julian Brimelow and John Hanesiak.
4” by 6” Cards Today’s assignment Name, SID – legible penmanship What worked What didn’t and needs clarification.
The 8 th GAME International Science Panel Meeting GAME-II Cloud and Precipitation Process Working Group Yasushi Fujiyoshi (ILTS, Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LARGE- SCALE AND MESOSCALE CONTRIBUTION TO SEVERE CONVECTION: A CASE STUDY EXAMPLE Paper by Charles A. Doswell III Powerpoint by.
WEST AFRICAN STORM TRACKS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH ATLANTIC TROPICAL CYCLONES Susanna Hopsch Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University.