NOTES DE COURS
Introduction to the physics of the atmosphere - L3
et DENS (updated 2020)
Introduction and general panorama (fr) [PDF]
The stratified atmosphere and convection
convection (en)[PDF]
Radiative transfert and greenhouse effect (en)[PDF]
Complement: Black body law
[PDF]
Mid-latitudes dynamics (en) [PDF]
Complement:
Geopotential [PDF]
Atmospheric boundary layer
[PDF]
Dynamics of the tropical region
[PDF]
S/
Meso-Scale meteorology - M2 MOCIS/WAPE (ENS/UPMC/X)
Part II of the course shared with Richard Wilson
Most convective instability and organisation of convection
[PDF]
(en, updated 2021)
problem: Potential density
[PDF] (fr)
problem: Mamatus
[PDF] (en)
TD convection
[PDF] (fr)
Potential vorticity and cyclogenesis
[PDF]
(en)
Complement:
Vademecum of potential vorticity
[PDF]
(en)
Frontogenesis [PDF]
(en)
-
Frontal development [PDF]
(en)
-
Calculation of
the ageostrophic equation, solution of the Sawyer -Eliassen
equation
[PDF]
[Mathematica
Notebook] (en)
Meso-scale cloud systems [PDF]
(en)
Tropical circulation
Supplement: Mean circulation and waves [PDF]
(fr)
Tropical cyclone
[PDF]
(fr)
Technical notes
Orthogonal
empirical functions (EOF) [PDF]
(fr)
Homework
Potential density[PDF]
(fr)
Semi-geostrophic
equations [PDF]
(fr)
Ondes atmosphériques
Transport
and mixing of passive scalars in geophysical flows