EPS 290, Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics, Fall 2014

Overview

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

Time

Tuesdays at 9:30

Location

377 McCone Hall

Syllabus

8/26, Nadir leads

• Pierrehumbert, Thermostats, radiator fins, and the local runaway greehouse, JAS, 1995

9/2, David leads

• Field et al., Evaluating climate model performance in the tropics with retrievals of water isotopic composition from Aura TES, GRL, 2014

9/9, Wolfgang leads

• Loriaux et al, Understanding convective extreme precipitation scaling using observations and an entraining plume model, JAS, 2013

9/16, Seeley leads

• Schneider, Bischoff, and Haug, Migrations and dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone, Nature, 2014

9/23, Charn leads

• Chen and Tung, Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration, Science, 2014

9/30, Nadir leads

• Öktem et al., Stereophotogrammetry of oceanic clouds, JAOT, 2014

10/7, with guest Chin-Hoh Moeng (NCAR)

• Moeng, A closure for updraft-downdraft representation of subgrid-scale fluxes in cloud-resolving models, MWR, 2014

10/14, with guest Camille Risi (LMD)

• Risi et al., Process-evaluation of tropospheric humidity simulated by general circulation models using water vapor isotopic observations: 2. Using isotopic diagnostics to understand the mid and upper tropospheric moist bias in the tropics and subtropics, JGR, 2012

10/21, Edman leads

• Rypdal and Rypdal, Long-Memory Effects in Linear Response Models of Earth's Temperature and Implications for Future Global Warming, J Climate, 2014

10/28, Da leads

• Stephens, van den Heever, and Pakula, Radiative-convective feedbacks in idealized states of radiative-convective equilibrium, JAS, 2008

11/4, Kooperman leads

• Pendergrass and Hartmann, Changes in the distribution of rain frequency and intensity in response to global warming, J Climate, 2014

11/18, Nadir leads

• Kuang, Weakly forced mock Walker cells, JAS, 2012

11/25, Nadir leads

• Singh and O'Gorman, Increase in moist-convective updraft velocities with warming in radiative-convective equilibrium, QJRMS, 2014

12/2, with guest Dorian Abbot (U Chicago)

• Yang, Cowan, and Abbott, Stabilizing cloud feedback dramatically expands the habitable zone of tidally locked planets, Astro J Letters, 2014

12/9, Mizerak leads

• Morley et al., Quantitatively assessing the tole of clouds in the transmission spectrum of GJ 1214b, Astro Journal, 2014