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Course Name	Turkish	Atmosfer Dinamiği II
	English	Atmospheric Dynamics II
Course Code	MTO 334E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	6	3	2	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Yurdanur Ünal
Course Objectives		1. Develop an understanding of how atmospheric events form and work in the context of atmospheric dynamics . 2. Use the learned ability to understand and analyze current weather conditions and criticize the issued weather forecast in terms of its success
Course Description		Balanced curved flow, Natural coordinates, Gradient wind approximation, Cyclostrophic flow, Trajectories and streamlines, Blaton’s equation, Vertical shear of the geostrophic wind, Thermal wind, Vertical motion, 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
Course Outcomes		Successful students will be able to; I. Determine the divergence and convergence zones in the atmosphere by using the geopotential height and temperature data. II. Determine the maximum wind fields by using the distribution of pressure and geopotential height data. III. Determine the trajectory of a parcel by using the distribution of the wind around a high or low pressure area of that region. IV. Determine the direction and intensity of the wind at the top of the layer by using the measured temperature distribution data and the measured wind direction and intensity data at the bottom of the layer and specify the type of advection in the layer. V. Determine the locational zonal velocity of the weather parcels moving parallel to the longitude or vertically by using conservation of absolute angular momentum law. VI. Determine the magnitude of the vertical component of circulation and relative vortisity in a certain area by using measured wind distribution data. VII. Predict the possible breeze winds by using the measured data of pressure and temperature distribution over land, sea and shores. VIII. Explain the reasons of trough formation at lee zones of the mountains by using the conservation of potential vorticity principle IX. 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.
Pre-requisite(s)		MTO333E, MTO333
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Textbook		James R. Holton, An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, fourth edition, Academic Press, 535pp
Other References		Haltiner, G.J., and F.L.Martin, Dynamical and Physical Meteorology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1957. Bluestein, H.B., Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitude, Vol I, II, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993. Panchev, S., Dynamic Meteorolgy, D.Reidel Publishing Com.,1985

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