SUBJECT
Title
Mesosynoptics
Type of instruction
lecture + practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2+1
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
General characteristics of meso-scale atmospheric phenomena, mesometeorological data assimilation, circulation systems forced by different surface- radiation budgets (lake circulation, slope wind, urban heat island), meso-scale systems forced by orography (orographic waves, downslope windstorm), low level jet stream, free convection and forced convection, air mass thunderstorms, multi-cell thunderstorms, supercells, mesoscale convective systems, tropical convective processes, convective processes associated to frontal systems, frontal circulation, symmetric instability.
Readings
P. Markowsky and Y.Richardson, 2010: Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes. Willey-Backwell, 407 p.