CLOUDS AND ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION
L3 ENS Paris
Caroline MULLER
Syllabus
Slides
Slides intro
- Introduction on cloud visualization (in section I, see syllabus) -
HK1
Slides clouds
- Cloud types (section I)
Notes thermo
- Thermodynamics (section II)
Main lecture notes
- Instability to dry convection, vertical and centrifugal (section III), Entropy, moist convection (sections IV, V and VI)
Slides instabilities
- Instabilities (section III), see also references (
chp12
of Emanuel book (III);
chp4
Bohren&Albrecht book;
chp4
Emanuel (IV, V, VI))
TP instructions
and
link
- Online module on skew-T diagram
Slides
- Moist convection
Books
”Atmospheric Sciences”, Wallace & Hobbes
”Cloud Dynamics”, Houze
”Atmospheric Convection”, Emanuel
”Atmospheric Thermodynamics”, Bohren & Albrecht
”Physics of Climate”, Peixoto & Oort
Useful links: Online training resources METED
meted.ucar.edu
See in particular the METED course: ”
Skew-T mastery module
”
and also: ”
Principles of convection I: Buoyancy and CAPE
”
