Atmospheric Sciences 5200: Physical Meteorology III: Cloud Physics

Atmospheric Sciences 5200
Physical Meteorology III: Cloud Physics

	Fall Semester 2016, Second Half (1.5 credits)
	M W 11:50 to 1:10 (lecture)
	WBB 820

	Prof. Steven K. Krueger
	725 WBB
	801-581-3903
	steve.krueger at utah.edu
	HELP! M W 2:15 to 3:00 p.m., or by appointment; email works well

Syllabus

Exams

Final Exam: Tuesday, December 13, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Final Exam sample questions
Final Exam sample questions, Part 2

Homework Assignments

Exercise 1: Parcel model (due Oct 31)

Matlab code: parcel.m satadjust_dummy.m theta.m esat.m desdT.m

Exercise 2: Entraining Parcel model (due Nov. 14)

Matlab code: tskew.m StdAtm.m TpStd.m CAPE.txt parcel_HW2_2b.m
How to check your code
skew T plot for parcel model with entrainment

Exercise 3: Cold-Cloud Microphysics (due Nov 23)
Exercise 4: Growth of Precipitation (due Dec 5)

Reading Assignments

Oct 17-31: Parcel model

Rogers & Yau: Chapter 3

Nov 2: Formation of cloud droplets

Wallace & Hobbs: 6.1
Rogers & Yau: Chapter 6, p 81-89

Nov 7 & 9: Growth of cloud droplets

WH: 6.4
RY: Ch 7, p 99-105 (optional), 105-110 (The growth of droplet populations)

Lecture Notes

Parcel model (slides) (Oct 17)
Parcel model (notes) (Oct 17)
Saturation Adjustment (slides) (Oct 19)
Diabatic Processes and Entrainment (slides) (Oct 24)
Time-lapse movie of entraining cumulus clouds (127 MB) (Oct 24)
Perturbation pressure & vertical velocity (notes) (Oct 26, 31)
Perturbation pressure & vertical velocity (slides) (Oct 26, 31)
Warm Cloud Microphysics (slides) (Nov 2, 7, 9)
Collection of cloud droplets (slides) (Nov 14)
Cold Cloud Microphysics (slides) (Nov 14, 16, 21)
Photographing Snowflakes in Freefall: Seminar by Tim Garrett (abstract) (slides 52 MB) (audio 30 MB) (Utah snow ad)
How Models Produce Precipitation and Clouds (MetEd) (Nov 23)
Convective downdrafts (slides) (Nov 28)
Rain Shadows (Dec 5)
Noctilucent Clouds (Dec 5)

Thermodynamics Notes for Meteo 3510
Skew-T log p diagrams

Skew-T log p diagram (1050-100 mb, 100-mb intervals. -40 to +50 C at surface, 5 C intervals.)

Color Skew-T (1050-100 mb, 10-mb intervals. -20 to +40 C at surface, 1 C intervals.)

B&W Skew-T (1050-100 mb, 10-mb intervals. -20 to +40 C at surface, 1 C intervals.)

MATLAB Online References

Last updated Dec 7, 2016