ATMO 580 - Tropical Meteorology                                             Fall 2007

Instructor:   Professor Liz Ritchie Rm 570 PAS Building Ph:   626-7843 Email: ritchie@atmo.arizona.edu Office Hours: Tues/Wed 11:00-11:50am

• Course Description
• Course Syllabus and Outline
• Lecture Material
• "State of the Tropics"
• Research Topics
• Solutions to Problems
• Review Problem Sets
• Related Links

*** ANNOUNCEMENTS ***

Solutions are posted for Midterm 2

If you have questions from Midterm 1 come and see me

  Updated 1 November 2007



Course Description:

An introduction to the fundamentals of meteorology in the tropics. Topics include tropical climatology; large-scale circulations and the role of the tropics in the general circulation; monsoons; seasonal, interannual; and decadel variations; tropical clouds and precipitation processes; tropical cyclones and other disturbances.



Syllabus and Outline

• Course Syllabus
• Course Outline
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Additional Lecture Material:

MONDAY Images from Aug 20 Images from Sep 10 Lecture from Sep 17 Lecture from Sep 24 Images from Oct 1 Lecture from Oct 8 Lecture from Oct 15 Images from Oct 22 Images from Oct 29 Images from Nov 5 Veteran's Day - 11/12 Images from Nov 26

WEDNESDAY Images from Aug 22 Lecture from Sep 19 Images from Oct 3 Lecture from Oct 10 Lecture from Oct 17 Images from Oct 24 Images from Oct 31 Images from Nov 7 M. Pineros    A. Penny Lecture from Nov 28

FRIDAY Images from Aug 24 Images from Sep 7 Lecture from Sep 14 Images from Sep 30 Lecture from Oct 5 Lecture from Oct 12 Lecture from Oct 19 Midterm Exam L. Leary C. King    S. Bieda Thanksgiving Break D. Kofron    K. Johnson

NOTES Notes Aug 20-24 TC Spiral bands - Courtesy B. McNoldy Radar loop of Rita 2005 Radar loop of Lekima 2001 Radar loop of Lekima 2001 Radar loop of Sepat 2007

REFERENCES Refs Sep 30 - Oct 3 Refs Oct 5 - Oct 10 Refs Oct 15 - Oct 19 Refs Oct 22 - Oct 26

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"State of the Tropics"

DATE Friday Sep 7 Friday Sep 14 Friday Sep 21 Friday Sep 28 Friday Oct 5 Friday Oct 12 Friday Oct 19 Friday Oct 26

NAME Ritchie Bieda, Johnson, King No Discussion Leary, Penny, Pineros Kofron, King Johnson, Bieda Pineros, Kofron Penny, Leary

RESPONSIBILITY Everything!! Tropics, Pac-TC, Atl-TC No Discussion Tropics, Pac-TC, Atl-TC Tropics, TCs Tropics, TCs Tropics, TCs Tropics, TCs

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Research Topics - schedule of presentations

Nov 9 - The role of convection in tropical cyclone maintenance - Lesley Nov 16 - Defining the southwest US monsoon season - Stephen Nov 16 - Radiation properties of tropical convection - Cristy Nov 21 - The nature of the Asian monsoon rainfall - Andy Nov 21 - The origin and maintenance of African Easterly Waves - Miguel Nov 30 - Extratropical - tropical interactions - Dave Nov 30 - ENSO - why does it occur and what are its impacts? - Kim

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Solutions to Problems

Solution to Class Problem - Aug 31

Solution to Class Problem - Oct 24

Solutions to Midterm 2

Nov 14 - Plots for r = [0,500]      Plots for r = [0,200]

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Exam Review Sets

Sample questions for Exam 1

Sample solutions

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• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/                                     The National Hurricane Center's Primary Website
• http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/                               The Japan Meteorological Agency Tropical Cyclone Webpage
• http://wwwssec.wisc.edu/data/                              Wisconsin Space Science & Engineering Center
• http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html                   Naval Research Laboratory -- Monterey TC Page
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/analysis_tools.shtml       NHC - Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch
• http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/matw/maproom/OLR_modes/index.htm           The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's large-scale tropical wave site
• http://http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/           The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's ENSO site
• http://www.weather.unisys.com                             Source of weather maps, sattelite imagery, etc...
• http://www.weather.uwyo.edu/upperair                 Univ. of Wyoming (used for sounding data)
• http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc                               Tucson National Weather Service Office
• http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/products/                 UA Atmospheric Science Dept weather conditions
• http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/                             NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Washington DC
• http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/                              NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder CO
• http://www.met.utah.edu/links.html                        Univ. of Utah list of atmospheric websites
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