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]

Convective and meso-Scale meteorology - M2 MOCIS/WAPE (ENS/UPMC/X)

Part II of the course shared with Richard Wilson

• Moist convective instability and organisation of convection [PDF] (en, updated 2022)

• Problem: Potential density [PDF] (fr)

• Problem: Mamatus [PDF] (en)

• TD convection [PDF] (fr)

• Emagram for TD [PDF]

• Houze review article on meso-scale system (2004) [article] (en)

• Houze review article on 100 years of research on MCS (2018) [article] (en)

• Potential vorticity and cyclogenesis [PDF] (en)

• Complement: Vademecum of potential vorticity [PDF] (en)

• Frontogenesis [PDF] (en)

• [problem: Semi-geostrophic equations (PDF)] (fr)

• Frontal development [PDF] (en)

• Q vector [PDF] [Mathematica Notebook] (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

• Introduction [PDF]

• Ondes de Rossby [PDF]

• Ondes de gravité [PDF]

• Ondes équatoriales [PDF]

• Instabilité barocline I [PDF]

• Instabilité barocline II [PDF]

Transport and mixing of passive scalars in geophysical flows 

[PDF]