NATS 101-05 Lecture 13 Diurnally and Seasonally Reversing Winds: Sea breeze, mountain-valley breeze and Monsoons |
Divergence and Convergence |
Vertical Motion |
Force of Friction 2 |
Flow at Surface Lows and Highs |
Combining upper & low level flow: Rising (cloudy) and sinking (clear) |
Combining upper & low level flow: Rising (cloudy) and sinking (clear) |
Atmospheric Scales of Motion |
Review: Thermally Direct Circulation |
Sea Breeze Development (Courtesy of Mohan Ramamurthy, WW2010) |
Sea Breeze Development (Courtesy of Mohan Ramamurthy, WW2010) |
Sea Breeze versus Land Breeze (Courtesy of Mohan Ramamurthy, WW2010) |
Sea Breeze |
Mountain-Valley Breeze |
Phoenix-Tucson Diurnal Winds |
Thermally Direct Circulation |
The Darwin Awards |
The Darwin Awards |
Monsoon |
Monsoon |
Monsoon |
Slide 22 |
Slide 23 |
Asian Winter |
Asian Summer |
Monthly Average Rain Cherrapunji |
January |
July |
Geography of Our Monsoon Region |
Terrain |
Yecora & Moctezuma PWV 2004 Monsoon Onset |
Monthly Rainfall |
Percentage of Annual Rainfall |
July minus June Rainfall |
Monsoon Evolution from Satellite |
June-July 500 mb Flow |
July 900 mb Flow |
Diurnal Winds 450 m AGL |
Summary |
Assignment |