Lecture: April 25, no lecture

Time required for Sheet 1: 4 h

 
 

Preparation: read 9 pages in the Chapter The equations of fluid motion (Marchal and Plumb, 2008).

This might take 45 min

 
 

Watch the video Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics (47 min)

This is based on Chapter 1 “The Equations of Atmospheric Dynamics”" from Holton and Hakim (2013) Chapter 01, Part 01: Forces in the Atmosphere

Read the script about Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics (Chapter 1)

Reading/learning might take 60 min.


 

Literature:

  • Holton, J.R., and Hakim, G. J., 2013: Introduction to Dynamical Meteorology, Academic Press, Oxford (UK). —Fifth edition / Gregory J. Hakim. ISBN 978-0-12-384866-6 pdf
  • Marchal, J., Plumb, R. A., 2008. Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics: An Introductory Text. Academic Press, 344 pp; videos pdf
  • Lohmann, G., 2020: Climate Dynamics: Concepts, Scaling and Multiple Equilibria. Lecture Notes 2020, Bremen, Germany. (pdf of Chapter 1 and 10) (pdf of the full script)
  • R Core Team (2013). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/. An Introduction to R derived from an original set of notes describing the S and S-PLUS environments written in 1990–2 by Bill Venables and David M. Smith when at the University of Adelaide. Online document at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html.
  • Paul Torfs, P., and & Claudia Brauer, C., 2014: A (very) short introduction to R
  • R Commands as discussed in the Tutorium

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