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Course Name	Turkish	Atmosfer Dinamiği I
	English	Atmospheric Dynamics I
Course Code	MTO 337E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	6	3	2	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Elçin Tan
Course Objectives		• To understand how weather events form. • To learn how atmospheric dynamics can be applied to Meteorological Engineering problems. • To improve the weather forecasts by developing new methods.
Course Description		Physical dimensions and units, Total differentiation, Equation of motion in Cartesian coordinates, Fundamental forces, Noninertial reference frames and apparent forces, Equation of motion in spherical coordinates, Scale analysis of equation of motion, Geostrophic approximation, Structure of the static atmosphere, Hydrostatic approximation, Continuity equation, Thermodynamic energy equation, Geopotential, Barometric formulas, Static stability and convection, Parcel method, Stability criteria in terms of potential temperature, Basic equations in isobaric coordinates. Natural coordinates, balanced flow.
Course Outcomes		On completing this course, students should/should be able to, 1. Explain the physical meanings of the fundamental equations that solve the atmospheric motions. 2. Explain the leading effects of the conservation of momentum, conservation of mass, and conservation of energy laws on atmospheric motions. 3. Determine the effects of the apparent forces that occur by the rotation of Earth-like Coriolis and Centrifugal forces in atmospheric motions. 4. Understand the fundamental laws of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics that manage the atmospheric motions to determine the occurred weather and climate, and to simplify to use in the applications. 5. Explain the wind and temperature fields of systems seen on the synoptic cards obtained by the results of scale analysis of synoptic meteorology with the approximations like geostrophic wind and hydrostatic atmosphere approach. 6. State the atmospheric stability and instability by TEMP diagrams since it has importance to determine the vertical motions that are the fundamental reasons for cloud and precipitation formation. 7. Apply to certain atmospheric conditions by using the formula obtained by a fundamental hydrostatic equation.
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