SUBJECT
Title
Dynamic modelling 2
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
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.