EPS 290, Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics, Fall 2019

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

8/21, Nathaniel leads

• Hill, Bordoni, and Mitchell, Axisymmetric constraints on cross-equatorial Hadley Cell extent, JAS, 2019

8/28, Rusen leads

• Yu et al., Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume, Science, 2019

9/4, with guest Adele Igel

• Igel and van den Heever, The importance of the shape of cloud droplet size distributions in shallow cumulus clouds. Part I: Bin microphysics simulations, JAS, 2017

9/11, Qindan leads

• Popp et al., Transition to a Moist Greenhouse with CO2 and solar forcing, Nature Comm, 2016

9/18, with guest Leroy Westerling

• Crockett and Westerling, Greater temperature and precipitation extremes intensify Western U.S. Droughts, wildfire severity, and Sierra Nevada tree mortality, J Climate, 2018

9/25, Yi-Chuan leads

• Zhou and Xie, A conceptual spectral plume model for understanding tropical temperature profile and convective updraft velocities, JAS, 2019

10/2, with guest Chris Bretherton

• Narenpitak and Bretherton, Understanding negative subtropical shallow cumulus cloud feedbacks in a near-global aquaplanet model using limited area cloud-resolving simulations, JAMES, 2019

10/16, Alex leads

• Macdonald et al., Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state, Science, 2019

10/23, Rusen leads

• Wolf et al., Evaluating climate sensitivity to CO2 across Earth's history, JGR, 2018

10/30, Alec leads

• Winkelmann et al., Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Science Advances, 2015

11/13, Rusen leads

• Po-Chedley et al., Climatology explains intermodel spread in tropical upper tropospheric cloud and relative humidity response to greenhouse warming, GRL, 2019

11/20, Yi-Chuan leads

• Solanki et al., Solar irradiance variability and climate, Annual Reviews, 2019, up through and including section 3.1

12/4, Qindan leads

• Solanki et al., Solar irradiance variability and climate, Annual Reviews, 2019, section 3.2 to the end

12/18, Qindan leads

• Stull, Boundary Layer Meteorology, chapter 11, up through 11.2.4