ATOC 4720: class 6: Winds and precipitation

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ATOC 4720 class 6 Winds and precipitation

• 1. Winds
• Scales of motions
• Longitudinally averaged zonal winds
• Tropospheric winds at different latitudes
• 2. Precipitation

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Class 5 The temperature distribution and its
measurement
Sharp drop In water
80 mass All water (homo or heter?)
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1. Winds in the earths atmosphere

• Spatial scales of motion
• (1) Planetary-scale
• (2) Synoptic-scale (a few hundreds of km)
• (3) Meso-scale (a few tens of KMhundreds km)
• (4) Small-scale (lt a few 10km).

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Planetary scale winds zonal mean
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Winds in tropical stratosphere
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Winds in troposphere middle high latitudes
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Surface Pressure
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Winds in the tropics
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Easterly wave Perturbation
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Asian-summer monsoon
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2. Precipitation
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Precipitation January
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July
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