12307: Weather and Climate Laboratory

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Project 4: General Circulation

The project is described in the PDF file here.

Get notes on relevant theory:

The meridional structure of the atmosphere:
temperature, pressure, moisture and winds

Hadley and middle latitudes circulation-heat and momentum budget

Tank Experiments

The main experiment is:
General circulation (Baroclinic instability of the thermal wind)

The following experiment should also be tried:
Thermal wind and Hadley circulation

For more on this project: see: Weather in a Tank-General Circulation

Atmospheric data 

Hadley Cell:  

Eddy heat transport:  

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Climatology on the web:

ESRL climate

IRI/LDEO Climatology (NCEP Reanalysis) 

Climate data  (from OORT dataset)

 


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Last updated: May 08, 2007.