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Instructors: Dr. Daniel Kunkel
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
08.110.8007
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
This lecture provides an insight into the synpotic and mesoscale dynamics of mid-latitude weather systems. The goals are:
(i) provide basics and different perspectives on mid-laitude weather systems;
(ii) discuss specific dynamical phenomena of the mid-latitudes;
(iii) analyse cyclones using python and reanalysis data.
The lecture builds upon concepts which have been introduced in the introductory lecture as well as in the basic dynamic and synoptic lectures. A basic understanding of python is helpful.
Compulsory attendance:
Aktive Teilnahme/Active participation in the computer labs is the prerequisite to pass the course.
Contents:
- Mid-latitude atmospheric state
- Storm tracks and perspectives of cyclogenesis: from quasi-geostrophy to potential vorticity and Lagrangian analysis
- Blocking
- Meso-scale features of the extratropical atmosphere (some examples)
- Medicanes
- Polar lows
- Atmospheric rivers
- Bomb cyclogenensis
- Sting jets
Recommended reading list:
- Lackmann: Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology: Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting, ISBN 978-1-878220-10-3, AMS, 2015
- Carlson: Mid-Latitude Weather Systems, Penn-State Universtiy Press, ISBN? 978-0271056432, 2017
- individual paper which will be provided during the lectures.
Digital teaching:
The lecture will take place at IPA, a hybrid component can be offered if necessary. The computer lab will be in person only.
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