AOS C115/C228 - Mesoscale Dynamics

Links

Class syllabus
DTDM/DTDM2 home page
ARPS for C115/C228 home page
GrADS documentation
GrADS documentation index

Experiment handouts

Experiment 1 - Thermal
Experiment 2 - Sea-breeze
Experiment 3 - Rolls
Experiment 4 - Supercell/multicell storms and hydraulic jumps

PPTs from class (These will likely be updated through the quarter)
(animations generally missing; be careful of file sizes)

• An example report from the past [Steven_C228_Experiment_1.ppt] (188 KB)
• Rising thermal slides and Unix/GrADS tutorials [thermal_linux.ppt] (236 KB)
• sea-breeze.ppt (3.22 MB)
• Movie from "sea-breeze.ppt":
  • 25may2003_Fla.MOV (2.1 MB QuickTime movie)
• sea-breeze_Rotunno.ppt (2.5 MB)
• Thermal_Shear_Intro.ppt(2.6 MB)
• HCRs - Asai, ARPS simulations, Weckwerth simulations, wavelength/aspect ratios [ZIP archive] (6 MB)
• Fovell (2005) study [seabreeze_C115.ppt] (2.7 MB)
• Squall line overview [atlanta_squall_C115.ppt] (6.3 MB)
• Supercell storms (8.5 MB)
• Hydraulic jumps (1 MB)
• Mountain waves (4.8 MB)
• Discrete propagation [discrete_prop_C115.ppt] (4.6 MB)
• RKW theory [rkw.ppt] (2.1 MB)
• Heavy Precip Forecasting handout [heavy_precip_forecasting_C115_handout.ppt] (7 MB)"
• Heavy Precip Forecasting PPT [heavy_precip_forecasting_C115.ppt] (13.5 MB)"
• Movies embedded in Heavy Precipitation PPT (they will probably need to be reinserted):
  • 08jul03-KLNX-multicell.GIF (0.5 MB)
  • 19980714_squall.mov (2.9 MB)
  • 05jun2004_with_Hays.GIF (1.2 MB)
  • 20071001_mcv_squall.mov (5.8 MB)
  • 2april2006_movie.mov (20 MB)
  • pgftest3A1_wmovie.GIF (1.5 MB)
  • TSErin2007OKC.mov (39 MB)
• Summary slides (7.5 MB)

Extra DTDM resources

Updated scripts for DTDM

• input_rolls.txt

Mesoscale meteorology review

• Houze (2004)

Anelastic approximation

• Ogura and Phillips (1962)
• Durran (1989)
• Nance and Durran (1994)
• Arakawa and Konor (2009)

Sea-breeze/rolls/convective initiation

• Leopold (1949)
• Walsh (1974)
• Mak and Walsh (1976)
• Rotunno (1983)
• Wakimoto and Atkins (1994)
• Atkins, Wakimoto and Weckwerth (1995)
• Dailey and Fovell (1999)
• Fovell and Dailey (2001)
• Fovell (2005)
• Weckwerth et al. (1997)

Thermal and shear instabilities

• Kuo (1963)
• Asai (1964)
• Asai (1970a)
• Asai (1970b)
• Asai (1972) (caution - 37MB!!)
• Brown (1970)

Ordinary cell storms and multicell storms

• Newton (1950)
• Tepper (1950)
• Newton and Newton (1959)
• Hane (1973)
• Browning et al. (1976)
• Hoxit et al. (1976)
• Zipser (1977)
• Barnes and Sieckman (1984)
• LeMone et al. (1984)
• Bluestein and Jain (1985)
• Rotunno, Klemp and Weisman (1988; "RKW")
• Fovell and Ogura (1988)
• Fovell and Tan (1998)
• Fovell, Mullendore and Kim (2006)
• Parker and Johnson (2000)
• Weisman and Rotunno (2004)

Supercell storm environmental conditions, splitting, propagation

• Lemon and Doswell (1979)
• Wilhelmson and Klemp (1981)
• Weisman and Klemp (1982)
• Rotunno and Klemp (1982)

Heavy precipitation

• Heavy Precip Forecasting lecture notes
• Doswell et al. (1996)
• Schumacher and Johnson (2009)
• Haynes and McIntyre (1987)
• Raymond and Jiang (1990)
• Corfidi et al. (1996)
• Junker et al. (1999)
• Bonner (1968)