Week 2: can you? Understand terms in the Equations of Motion of the atmosphere: Acceleration Pressure gradient Coriolis force. Be able to describe and.

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Week 2: can you? Understand terms in the Equations of Motion of the atmosphere: Acceleration Pressure gradient Coriolis force. Be able to describe and apply Balanced flow assumptions Geostrophic wind Gradient wind Understand and be able to explain qualitatively wave phenomena Gravity waves, their speed (quantitative) and restoring mechanism Barotropic instability associated with a jet. Rossby waves and their restoring mechanism (conversion of planetary vorticity to relative vorticity and vice-versa) Equatorial waves (Rossby waves only)