ATMO 580: Tropical Meteorology



State of the Tropics:

I suggest you work with your partner. At least know what each of you are presenting. You are a team in this!!


Date Large-scale tropics Tropical Cyclones
Friday Aug 30 Ritchie Ritchie
Friday Sep 6 Ritchie Ritchie
Friday Sep 13 Megan Jares Nick Dawson
Friday Sep 20 Class Cancelled Class Cancelled
Friday Sep 27 Exam - no SOT Exam - no SOT
Friday Oct 4 Arelis Rivera Reid Strickler
Friday Oct 11 Maria Cecilia doPrado Ethan Smith
Friday Oct 18 Lindsay Maudlin Daile Zhang
Friday Oct 25 Alejandro Martinez Denise Balukas
Friday Nov 1 Exam - no SOT Exam - no SOT


Responsibilities:


Large-Scale Tropics:
Describe the large-scale flow in the tropics (Pacific and Atlantic) in both the upper- and lower parts of the atmosphere. Useful charts include 200- and 850-hPa streamlines or wind vector plots, mean sea-level pressure charts, vertical wind shear charts, satellite IR, VIS, WV imagery. Include a discussion of the current state of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and SSTs - ENSO.

Tropical Cyclones:
Describe all TC activity in the tropics (Pacific and Atlantic). For each TC describe current motion and intensity (use forecast center predictions to help you out - JTWC or JMA for the w N-Pac and NHC for E N-Pac and Atl) and project the future motion and intensity basing your forecast on actual environment factors. Useful charts include 200- and 850-hPa streamlines or wind vector plots for diffluence/confluence patterns, vertical wind shear charts (for adverse shear conditions), satellite WV imagery for dry air.