Reading and Other Materials for METR 4433
Mesoscale Meteorology
Spring 2008

Unit 1: Definitions of "Mesoscale"

	Lecture notes for Unit 1
	Read Chapter 1 from Atkinson (1981)
	Read Chapter 1 from Lin draft book

Unit 2: Mountain Wave Dynamics and Downslope Windstorms

	Read Holton pages 284-289
	Mountain Wave Schematics and Aircraft Flight Data
	Read Mountain Wave Sections from Houze (1993)
	Photograph of a Hydraulic Jump in the Kitchen!
	Read Orographic Precipitation Sections from Houze (1993)

Unit 3: Boundary-Layer Phenomena

	Lecture notes on Planetary Boundary Layer
	Lecture notes on the Dryline
	Dryline Convective Initiation Case Study (includes movies!!)
	Lecture Notes on Land and Sea Breezes (Movie of the Florida Sea Breeze)
	Lecture Notes on Horizontal Convective Rolls (HCRs) Fovell Materials and Movies [Useful COMET Module on Slantwise Convection]
	Lecture Notes on Lake Effect Snow Storms and Symmetric Instability (Movie of Radar Images From Lake Effect Snow Storms)
	Case Study of Conditional Symmetric Instability (CSI)

Unit 4: Deep Convective Storms and Mesoscale Systems

	Single Cell (Airmass) Storms
	Bluestein Volume II (p. 455-463)
	Cotton and Anthes (p. 455-458)
	Houze (p. 35-37; 268-273; 319-329)
	Multicell Storms
	Bluestein Volume II (p. 512)
	Houze (p. 273-278; 313-319)
	Supplemental (not required) reading: Lin et al. (1998), Lin and Joyce (2001), Fovell and Tan (1998)
	Lines and Convective Systems
	Bluestein Volume II (p. 520-535)
	Houze (p. 329-333)
	Supercell Storms
	Bluestein Volume II (p. 463-492)
	Houze (p. 278-295)
	Klemp (1987)
	Dynamics of Supercell Storms
	Bluestein Review Article
	Narrated Simulation of a Supercell Storm
	Other Movies of Simulated Supercell Storms and Tornadoes
	Movie Showing Development of Updraft Rotation
	Ming Xue's High-Resolution Simulation of a Supercell, Wall Cloud and Tornado
	The Wind Hodograph and Updraft Rotation

Unit 5: Principles of Doppler Radar and Physical Interpretation

	Chapter 2 of Rinehart (1991): Radar Hardware
	Chapter 4 of Rinehart (1991): Radar Equation for Point Targets
	Chapter 5 of Rinehart (1991): Distributed Targets
	Chapter 6 of Rinehart (1991): Doppler Velocity Measurements
	Burgess and Ray (1986): Principles of Radar
	Radar for NWS Meteorologists #1
	Radar for NWS Meteorologists #2

Unit 6: Tornado Dynamics

	Tornado Dynamics
	Bluestein Volume II (p. 492-501)
	Houze (p. 295-312)
	Davies-Jones et al. (2001)
	Ming Xue's High-Resolution Simulation of a Supercell, Wall Cloud and Tornado

Unit 7: Hurricanes Dynamics

	Hurricane Dynamics
	Tornadoes and Hurricanes (McCaul 1991)
	McCaul Figures from Class
	Hurricanes and Climate Change
	Millersville University Lecture on Hurricane Dynamics
	Animation of Carnot Cycle

Unit 8: Miscellaneous Topics (as time allows; Post-Frontal Rain Bands, Symmetric Instability, Cold-Air Damming, Mesoscale Cellular Convection)