ATM 521 Tropical Meteorology FALL 2009. ATM 521 Tropical Meteorology SPRING 2008 Instructor:Chris Thorncroft Room:ES226 Phone:518 442 4555

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ATM 521 Tropical Meteorology FALL 2009

ATM 521 Tropical Meteorology SPRING 2008 Instructor:Chris Thorncroft Room:ES226 Phone: Aim of Course: To describe and understand the nature of tropical weather systems and their role in the tropical climate, including emphasis on the interactions between dynamics and convection. Course Assessment: 1. Homework15% 2. Class exam on Wednesday 14th October30% 3. Final exam on Tuesday 15th Dec am55% Text Books: There is no recommended text book for this course.

ATM 521 Tropical Meteorology SPRING 2008 Lecture Plan: 1. Introduction 2. Tropical Convection (including MCSs) 3. Large-scale Tropical Circulations 4. Kelvin waves 5. Easterly waves 6. Tropical Cyclones Dry spells Flooding: Ghana 07 Flooding: New Orleans 05

1. INTRODUCTION Where are the tropics and what makes them special? Zonal and time mean circulations Asymmetric circulations

2. TROPICAL CONVECTION Conditional Instability, CAPE, tephigrams Vertical profiles of conserved variables

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS Structure, propagation and longevity issues will be discussed as well as their impact on larger scales. See Houze, R. A., Jr., 2004: Mesocale convective systems Rev. Geophys., 42, /2004RG000150, 43 pp.

TRMM based MCS climatology over Africa and tropical Atlantic for June-July-August Rainfall Stratiform Rain Fraction Percentage of MCSs with significant ice scattering Average Lightning flash density Schumacher and Houze (2006) QJRMS : Less stratiform rain over sub-Saharan Africa than Atlantic but, Stratiform rain increases in monsoon season compared to pre-monsoon season due to (i) reduced upper-level shear?, (ii) reduced impact of dry SAL?, (iii) other? MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS

Cold Tongue AEJ SAL ITCZ Heat Low Key features of the West African Monsoon Climate System during Boreal summer 3 LARGE-SCALE TROPICAL CIRCULATIONS Observations and theory of monsoons Theories for large-scale motion Emphasis given to West African Monsoon

4. KELVIN WAVES Easterly waves are the dominant synoptic weather system in the Africa- Atlantic sector but they also exist in other basins (e.g. Pacific) We will discuss their structure and theories for their existence and growth including how they interact with MCSs (see next slides).

5. EASTERLY WAVES Easterly waves are the dominant synoptic weather system in the Africa- Atlantic sector but they also exist in other basins (e.g. Pacific) We will discuss their structure and theories for their existence and growth including how they interact with MCSs (see next slides).

315K Potential Vorticity (Coloured contours every 0.1PVU greater than 0.1 PVU) with 700hPa trough lines and easterly jet axes from the GFS analysis (1 degree resolution), overlaid on METEOSAT-7 IR imagery. Diagnostics for highlighting multi-scale aspects of AEWs

315K Potential Vorticity (Coloured contours every 0.1PVU greater than 0.1 PVU) with 700hPa trough lines and easterly jet axes from the GFS analysis (1 degree resolution), overlaid on METEOSAT-7 IR imagery.

6. TROPICAL CYCLONES Observations and theory of tropical cyclones including issues that relate to genesis, structure and track

Key weather systems in the West African and Tropical Atlantic regions An ideal region to study scale interactions including how they impact downstream tropical cyclogenesis AEWs MCSs SAL TC 6. TROPICAL CYCLONES

FINAL COMMENTS The course is fundamentally about the interactions between dynamics and convection, combining observations, modeling and theory. Ultimately a major motivation for research in this area is to improve our ability to predict tropical convection (over a range of space and timescales). This remains a major challenge and MUCH remains to be learned. The above is a major motivation for the proposed Year Of Tropical Convection (YOTC) a WCRP/THORPEX supported virtual field campaign that will likely begin during It is also a motivation for a joint AMMA-THORPEX Working Group that exists to evaluate and develop forecasting methods for the West African region. More information about both these activities will be provided during the course.