Reading and Other Materials for METR 4433
Mesoscale Meteorology
Spring 2011

Unit 1: Definitions of "Mesoscale"

	Lecture notes for Unit 1
	Read Chapter 1 in Markowski and Richardson

Unit 2: Mountain Wave Dynamics and Downslope Windstorms

	Read Chapter 12 in Markowski and Richardson
	Read Holton pages 284-289
	NTSB Weather Factual Report
	NTSB Weather Factual Report Addendum
	Mountain Wave Schematics and Aircraft Flight Data
	Photograph of a Hydraulic Jump in the Kitchen!

Unit 3: Boundary-Layer Phenomena and Mesoscale Instabilities

	Read Chapters 3 and 4 of Markowski and Richardson
	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

	Read Chapters 8-10 of Markowski and Richardson
	Single Cell (Airmass) Storms (pages 201-209)
	Multicell Storms (pages 209-213)
	Lines and Convective Systems (245-271)
	Supercell Storms (213-243)
	Dynamics of Supercell Storms (213-243)
	Bluestein Review Article
	Movie of a Supercell Storm
	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: Tornado Dynamics

	Read Section 10.1 in Markowski and Richardson
	Tornado Dynamics
	Davies-Jones et al. (2001)
	Ming Xue's High-Resolution Simulation of a Supercell, Wall Cloud and Tornado

Unit 6: Hurricane 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