1. 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)