ATM3010

Weather phenomena ( 6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: Dr Steven Siems (School of Mathematical Sciences)

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2006 (Day)

Synopsis: Moist thermodynamics, cloud microphysics (including development and precipitation), boundary layer dynamics, meso-scale convection and convective instability, the dynamics of mid-latitude cyclones, cyclogenesis and meteorological fronts, air pollution meteorology and modelling, meso-scale modelling.

Objectives: On completion of this unit students will: understand the transfer of energy in the atmosphere through radiation, latent heat and convection, understand the dynamics that evolve on small (local) scales due to this transfer of energy, understand the role of water vapour in these dynamics, understand the spread of formation and evolution of air pollution on these scales. In labs students will be able to examine numerical models of such circulations and analyse them.

Assessment: Examination (3 hours): 50% + Assignments, test and laboratory work: 50%

Contact Hours: Three 1-hour lectures and an average of one 1-hour support class per week and one 2-hour computer laboratory per fortnight

Prerequisites: MTH2010. MTH3361 or MTH3360 are recommended

Prohibitions: ATM3011