Course Syllabus

Project Topics

Tropical Meteorology Web Links

Dataset/project resources

Homework #3. Files for problem #1 are here: June 2002 Aug 2002 Oct 2002 Aug 1998

Announcements:

• 11 April 2008: HW3 is posted. It is optional, and will only be used if it aids your homework grade.
• 9 April 2008: The powerpoint from April 7 class is here.. The powerpoint that would have been given on April 9's class is here..

References (added as course progresses):

There is not yet a tropical meteorology textbook. As a result, numerous references to other textbooks and journal articles will be used as content for the course. They follow, in the order assigned to the class:

• Numerous handouts of figures from various sources.

• CISK or WISHE as the mechanism for tropical cyclone intensification.Jour. Atm. Sci., 53,3528-3540

• TC memory and role in climate PPT.

• Garstang, M. and A. K. Betts, 1974: A Review of the Tropical Boundary Layer and Cumulus Convection: Structure, Parameterization, and Modeling., Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 55, 1195-1205.

• Frank, W.M., 1978: The Life Cycles of GATE Convective Systems, J. Atm. Sciences, 35, 1256-1264.