NCAT ASME 433 Fall 2025 (Atmospheric Dynamics I)

Syllabus ASME 433

Ch.1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Real Forces

1.3 Apparent Forces and Coordinate Systems

1.4 Alternate Vertical Coordinates

    Ch.2 Basic Equations and Scale Analysis of Atmospheric Motion & Processes

       2.1 Scale Analysis of Equation of Motion

          2.2 Scale Analysis and Approximation of Continuity Equation

    Ch.3 Atmospheric Thermodynamic Equation, Instabilities, and Scale Analysis

                [Supplementary Material: Potential (Convective) Instabilty (Ch. 7 of Lin 2007)]

    Ch.4 Elementary Applications of the Basic Equations

          4.1 Basic Equations in Isobaric Coordinates

          4.2 Balanced Flow

          4.3 Trajectories, Streamlines and Streamfunctions

          4.4 Thermal Wind

          4.5 Vertical Motion

          4.6 Surface Pressure Tendency

Ch.5 Circuation and Vorticity

5.1 The Circulation Theorem

5.2 Vorticity

5.3 The Vorticity Equation

5.4 Potential Vorticity

Ch.6 Introduction to Wave Dynamics