SUBJECT

Title

Dynamic modelling 2

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2+1

Recommended in

Semester 3

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

Necessity for simplification of the system of hydro-thermodynamic equations, similarity theory, method of order analysis, quasi-static (primitive) system of equations, approximations to the system of prognosis equations, linearization of the system of atmospheric equations, the five basic modes of atmospheric motions, parameterizations of atmospheric microphysical processes and surface-atmosphere interactions.

Readings

George J. Haltiner, 1980, Numerical Prediction and Dynamic Meteorology, John Wiley & Sons, 477 p.