Guest Lectures

In the fall of 2019, I provided 2 weeks of guest lectures to Present and Future Climates, a joint undergraduate-graduate course. These lecutres covered Atmospheric General Circulation and Climate Variability. To view the lecture slides and notes, click the links above. Below is a detailed list of topics covered in each week.

Atmospheric General Circulation:

• Zonal-mean solar insulation
• Hot-plate circulation
• 3 cell structure of the atmosphere
• Conservation of angular momentum
• Coriolis force
• Hydrological Pattern
• 3D momentum equation
• Thermal wind balance
• Meridional energy transport
• Stationary and transient eddies
• Baroclinic instability

Climate Variability:

• Forced vs internal variability
• Teleconnections
• Variability timescales
• Walker Circulation
• El Nino Southern Oscillation
• North Atlantic Oscillation
• Southern Annular Mode
• Pacific Decadal Oscillation
• Atlantic Meridional Oscillation
• Madden-Julian Oscillation