EPS 290, Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics, Fall 2015

Overview

This course covers current and classic papers in atmospheric dynamics with an eye towards aiding students involved in graduate-level research projects.

Time

Wednesdays at 9:30

Location

377 McCone Hall

Syllabus

8/26, with guest Caroline Muller (Ecole Polytechnique)

• Muller and Bony, What favors convective aggregation, and why?, GRL, 2015

9/2, Alex leads

• Chepfer et. al., Where and when will we observe cloud changes due to global warming?, GRL 2014

9/9, with guest Jonathan Wright (Tsinghua)

• Wright, Sobel, and Galewsky, Diagnosis of Zonal Mean Relative Humidity Changes in a Warmer Climate, J Climate, 2010

9/16, Seeley leads

• Cronin and Tziperman, Low clouds suppress Arctic air formation and amplify high-latitude continental winter warming, PNAS, 2015

9/23, Suqin leads

• Craig and Dornbrack, Entrainment in Cumulus Clouds: What Resolution is Cloud-Resolving?, JAS, 2008

9/30, Da leads

• Muller and Held, Detailed Investigation of the Self-Aggregation of Convection in Cloud-Resolving Simulations, JAS, 2012

10/7, with guest Bill Boos (Yale)

• Boos and Storelvmo, Near-linear response of mean monsoon strength to a broad range of radiative forcing, PNAS, 2015

10/14, Nadir leads

• Beals et al., Holographic measurements of inhomogeneous cloud mixing at the centimeter scale, Science, 2015

10/28, Wolfgang leads

• Williams et al., Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014, GRL, 2015

11/4, Ellyn leads

• DePaolo, Sustainable carbon emissions: The geologic perspective, MRS Energy and Sustainability, 2015

11/18, Alex leads

• Tsushima et al., High cloud increase in a perturbed SST experiment with a global nonhydrostatic model including explicit convective processes, JAMES, 2014

12/2, Edman leads

• Stechmann and Ogrosky, The Walker circulation, diabatic heating, and outgoing longwave radiation, GRL, 2014