PPT-Atmospheric Circulation

in a nutshell Hot air rises rains a lot in the tropics Air cools and sinks in the subtropics deserts Polewardflow is deflected by the Coriolis force into westerly jet streams in the temperate. Susan Howard. Earth & Space Research. Basically – why and how the ocean and atmosphere MOVE!. www.ametsoc.org . There are many scales of motion: . From . BIG. . to . very small. Today – I will just cover the basic large scale, GLOBAL circulation.. Lu J, L Sun, Y Wu, and G Chen. 2014. “The Role of Subtropical Irreversible PV Mixing in the Zonal Mean Circulation Response to Global Warming-Like Thermal Forcing.” . Journal of Climate, . early online. DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00372.1.. Dr. John Krasting. NOAA/GFDL – Princeton, NJ. John.Krasting@noaa.gov. Rutgers Physical Climatology. October 18, 2012. Why is there circulation to begin with?. The Earth has to maintain its radiative balance!. Image credit G. Orton. Heather Knutson (Caltech). In collaboration with: N. Lewis (Arizona), N. Cowan (Northwestern), E. . Agol. (U Washington), A. Burrows (Princeton), D. Charbonneau (Harvard), D. Deming (Maryland), J. Desert (Harvard), J. Fortney (Santa Cruz), E. Kite (UC Berkeley), J. Langton (Principia), G. Laughlin (Santa Cruz), A. Showman (Arizona). L. Talley, SIO 210 Fall, . 2015. . This lecture will be greatly abbreviated for 2015. Vertical . structure: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere. Forcing: unequal distribution of solar radiation. and Climate (Chap 6). Atmospheric General Circulation. Also: Global or planetary circulation. . The general circulation (GC) of the atmosphere is the totality of motions that characterize the . large scale. AOS 101 Weather and Climate. Lisha. M. . Roubert. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences. Today’s Lab. Today we will be using the tank lab to simulate the general circulation of the atmosphere. . 1. These are the lower compartments of the heart. Circulation Review. 2. This vein feeds the right atrium.. Vena Cava b. Pulmonary Vein . c. Femoral Vein d. Pulmonary artery. Circulation Review. 3. This artery leaves the right ventricle.. Author: Daisuke . Hotta. hotta@umd.edu. Advisor: Prof. Eugenia . Kalnay. Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, . University of Maryland, College Park. ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu. Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP):. in . the. TA experiment. Takayuki . Tomida. . and the TA collaboration. RIKEN. Fluorescence Detector (FD. ). Surface Detectors . SDs. . Plastic . scintillator. Telescope . Array(TA. ). Experiment. Location of cyclonic storms. Due to Coriolis forces, cyclonic storms must form at least 300 mi from the . Equator (about 5 degrees N or S). Traits common to tropical cyclones. Form between latitudes of 5° and 20° N or S. EARTH SURFACE. gravity. random. motion. Weight of all air molecules is propagated to surface by random motion of molecules. Random motion of molecules causes pressure to be applied in all directions. Can you SUGGEST reasons why the climates of these 2 places are so different?. Dalwhinnie. , Scotland, 351m . asl. Reading, England, 52m . asl. 56.9. °N. 51.45. °N. Global Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation. in CMIP5 GCM projections. . for the British . Isles. -. (. winters. 20. 09. –2. 099. ). Jan Stryhal & Radan Huth. Faculty . of Science, Charles University, Prague. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague .