Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Fundamental forces; basic laws of conservation; hydrodynamic equations in rotating frame of reference; dimensional analysis; geostrophic and hydrostatic approximations; Atmospheric stability; Isobaric coordinate system; Gradient wind approximation; thermal wind; vertical motion; barotropic and baroclinic atmospheres; Circulation and vorticity; vorticity equation; potential vorticity conservation. Boussinesq approximation; Reynolds averaging; mixing length hypothesis; Ekman layer; Acoustic, gravity, Poincare, Rossby and Kelvin waves. Atmospheric general circulation.