Information
Course Code AME11
Semester 1
Category
ECTS Credits 10
Eclass https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/PHY1974/
Professors

Proposed Bibliography

An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, James Holton, Elsevier Academic Press, London, 2004.

Dynamic Meteorology – A Basic Course, Adrian Gordon, Warwick Grace, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Roland Byron – Scott, Arnold Publishers, London, 1998.

Fluid Mechanics of the Atmosphere, Robert A. Brown, Academic Press, New York, 1991.

Course Description
  1. Thermodynamic elements in the atmosphere
    1. Adiabatic process in atmosphere
    2. Thermodynamic diagrams
    3. Atmospheric stability– use of thermodynamic diagrams
    4. Work and kinetic energy in vertical atmospheric motions
  2. Motion of atmospheric air
    1. Relative and absolute motion
    2. Forces that cause motion.
    3. General equations of motion
    4. Special cases of motion
  3. Variation of wind and barometric pressure
    1. Thermal wind
    2. Vertical temperature change
    3. Local thermometric variations
    4. Vertical variation of position and intensity of the pressure systems
  4. Time variations of flow parameters
    1. Kelvin and Bjerkness theorems
    2. Physical definition of circulation – Application to the development of vertical circulation
    3. Equation of barometric pressure – Bjerkness – Holboe theory
    4. Horizontal acceleration components
    5. Applications of the curl equation
    6. Rossby wave theory
  5. Atmospheric boundary layer data
    1. The concept of turbulence – Turbulent fluctuation
    2. Equations of motion for the average flow
    3. Vertical structure of the wind
    4. Ekman Layer