David A. Randall, Professor Atmospheric Science Colorado State University 970 491 8474 randall@atmos.colostate.edu

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QuickStudies

Quick Introductions to Various Topics of Relevance to Atmospheric Science
Preface

• Alternative Forms of the Hydrostatic Equation
• A Non-Hydrostatic Model Using Isentropic Coordinates
• The Anelastic and Boussinesq Approximations
• Bulk Boundary-Layer Models
• The Composition of Air



• Conservation of Momentum on a Rotating Sphere
• Derivation of the Navier-Stokes Equation
• Diffusion and Compensating Subsidence as Limiting Cases of a Single Flux Parameterization
• Dimensional Analysis and Similarity Analysis
• Eddy Kinetic Energy



• Empirical Orthogonal Functions
• An Introduction to the Energetics of Moving Air
• Fluxes of Vorticity and Momentum
• Forms of the Hydrostatic Equation
• From Airplanes to Climate Change



• Equatorially Trapped Waves in Shallow Water
• Fourier Series
• The Gent-McWilliams Theory of Mixing Along Isentropic Surfaces
• Group Velocity
• Hermite Polynomials



• Higher-Order Closure
• The Hydrostatic and Quasistatic Approximations
• Inertial Stability and Instability
• The Laplace Tidal Equations and Atmospheric Tides
• The Moist Adiabatic Lapse Rate



• Positive Dissipation
• ppmv
• Reynolds Averaging
• Separation of Variables
• The Shallow Water Equations



• Simple Motion
• Spherical Harmonics and Related Topics
• Static Energies
• Taming the Quadratic Forumula
• Taylor Series



• Vectors, Vector Calculus, and Coordinate Systems
• Vertical Coordinate Transformations
• Virtual Temperature and Virtual Temperature Fluxes
• Vorticity
• Vorticity and Angular Momentum



• Wave-Mean Flow Interactions