上課時間：每週一、三 08:25 – 10:00 AM
★第一次上課時間為 112/02/20 (一) 09:10 – 10:00 AM
上課地點：B105教室

0. Overview

1. Introduction – The atmospheric continuum, physical dimensions and units, scale analysis, the fundamental forces, noninertial reference frames and apparent forces, structure of the static atmosphere.

2. The basic conservation laws – Total differential, the vertical form of the momentum equation in rotating coordinates, the component equations in spherical coordinates, scale analysis of the equation of motion, the continuity equation, the thermodynamic energy equation, thermodynamics of the dry atmosphere.

3. Elementary application of the basic equations – The basic equation in isobaric coordinates, balanced flow, trajectories and streamlines, the thermal wind, vertical motion, surface pressure tendency.

4. Circulation and vorticity – The circulation theorem, vorticity, potential vorticity, the vorticity equation, the barotropic (Rossby) potential vorticity equation, the baroclinic (Ertel) potential vorticity equation.

5. The planetary boundary layer – Atmospheric turbulence, turbulent kinetic energy, planetary boundary layer momentum equations, secondary circulations and spin-down.

6. Synoptic-scale motions I: Quasi-geostrophic analysis – The observed structure of extratropical circulations, the quasi-geostrophic approximation, quasi-geostrophic prediction, diagnosis of vertical motion, idealized model of a baroclinic disturbance.