12.818: Introduction to Atmospheric Data and Synoptic Meteorology 

Instructor: Lodovica Illari (illari@mit.edu)

Course Syllabus

Course Calendar

Project 1: Mass and Wind: station data

Project 2: Mass and Wind: geostrophic/ageostrophic flow

Project 3: Sloping pressure surfaces: hydrostatic balance

Project 4: Fronts and jets: fronts and thermal wind

Project 5: Extra-tropical cyclones: quasi-geostrophy and the vorticity eq.

Project 6: Vertical velocity estimates: vorticity, kinematic and isentropic methods

Project 7: Potential vorticity and extra-tropical cyclones

Project 8: Tropical cyclones

Project 9: Tropical vs extra-tropical cyclones (a web page)

Project 10: The jet stream: jet webpage

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Others:

Project ##: Omega equation

Project #: Low frequency variability: atmospheric blocking

Project #: Low frequency variability: teleconnections

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Notes on GEMPAK (GEneral Meteorological PAcKage)

Weather in a Tank

Tank Experiments (12.003)

Text Books:

Marshall and Plumb: Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics (Academic Press)

Holton: An Introduction to Dynamical Meteorology (Academic Press)

Wallace and Hobbs: Atmospheric Science - An Introductory Survey (Academic Press)

Peixoto and Oort: Physics of Climate (Springer)