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Thermal wind
Absolute angular momentum, Conservation of absolute angular momentum
Circulation and vorticity, Circulation theorem.
Sea and land breezes, Vorticity.
Potential vorticity, Vorticity equation, Scale analysis of the vorticity equation
Atmospheric oscillations, Linear perturbation theory.
Properties of waves, Simple wave types, Acoustic or sound waves
Gravity waves and Rossby waves
The observed structure of extratropical circulations
Quasi-geostrophic approximation
Scale analysis in isobaric coordinates and quasi-geostrophic vorticity equation
Geopotential Tendency
The quasi-geostrophic potential vortisity equation
Diagnosis of the vertical motion |