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Course Name	Turkish	Atmosfer Dinamiği II
	English	Atmospheric Dynamics II
Course Code	MTO 340E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	6	3	2	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Yurdanur Ünal
Course Objectives		This course aims to develop an understanding of atmospheric dynamics in the context of observed phenomena, to develop the theory of atmospheric waves and develop the theory for how these waves interact with the mean flow, to develop an understanding of the quasi-geostrophic approximation, and demosntrate the application of this approximation to the atmospheric events.
Course Description		Thermal wind relationship, Absolute angular momentum, Circulation and vorticity, Circulation theorem, Land and sea breezes, Potential vorticity, Vorticity equation, Scale analysis of the vorticity equation, Atmospheric oscillations, Linear perturbation theory, Simple wave types, Atmospheric waves, Gravity waves, Rossby waves, Quasi-geostrophic theory, potential vorticity and vertical motion.
Course Outcomes		1. Determine the direction and intensity of the wind at the top of the layer by using the measured temperature distribution and the measured wind direction and intensity at the bottom of the layer and specify the type of advection in the layer. 2. Determine the locational zonal velocity of the weather parcels moving parallel to the longitude or vertically by using conservation of absolute angular momentum law. 3. Determine the magnitude of the vertical component of circulation and relative vortisity in a certain area by using measured wind distribution data. 4. Explain the reasons of trough formation at lee zones of the mountains by using the conservation of potential vortisity principle. 5. Linearize the equations that manage the nonlinear fundamental equations managing the atmosphere and the equations managing the wave motions in the atmosphere by perturbation methods. 6. Understand the quasi-geostrophic thoery and aplly to atmospheric motions.
Pre-requisite(s)		MTO337E, MTO337
Required Facilities		Computer
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Textbook		Holton, J. R. and G. J. Hakim, 2013.An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology,5th Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, 532 pp., ISBN 978-0-12-384866.
Other References		Bluestein, H.B., 1993, Dynamic Meteorology in MidLatitude, Vol I,II, Oxford University Press, New York. Holton, J.R., Çeviren Yunus Borhan, 2009, Dinamik Meteorolojiye Giriş, An Introduction to Dynamic Met., OYTEV Orhan Yavuz Teknik Eğitim Vakfı

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