Tropical Meteorology

Catalog description

The goal of this class is to provide a working knowledge of the dynamics and thermodynamics of the tropical atmosphere. A variety of tropical circulations and phenomena will be studied in detail, including regional and large-scale tropical circulations and their role in the global general circulation, tropical wave dynamics, convection and convective systems, synoptic, intraseasonal, and seasonal variability; monsoons, the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, tropical cyclones.