Applied Sci&Tech Ph.D. Program (AST), North Carolina A&T State University

Dynamic Mountain Meteorology

(AST 885-03)

Professor Yuh-Lang Lin
ylin@ncat.edu; http://mesolab.org
Department of Physics, AST PhD Program
North Carolina A&T State University

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A. Syllabus

B. Lecture Notes
    1.   Introduction (ref: Lin2007Ch1)
    2.   Governing Equations (ref: Lin2007Ch2)
    3.   Basic Wave Dynamics (ref: Lin2007Ch3)
4.   Pure Gravity Waves (ref: Lin2007Ch3)
5. Inertia-Gravity Waves (ref: Lin2007Ch3)
6.   Reflection and Critical Levels (ref: Lin2007Ch3)
    7.   Flows over Two-Dimensional Sinusoidal Mountains (ref: Lin2007Ch5)
    8.   Flows over Two-Dimensional Isolated Mountains (ref: Lin2007Ch5)
    9.   Nonlinear Flows over Two-Dimensional Mountains (ref: Lin2007Ch5)
    10. 3D Flow over Isolated Mountains (ref: Lin2007Ch5)
    11. Flow over Larger Mesoscale Mountains
            (ref: Lin2007Ch5; Lin et al. 1999, Lin et al. 2005, Lin and Savage (2011),  Lin et al. 2016)
    12. Other Orographic Effects (ref: Lin2007Ch5)
    13. Thermally Forced Flow over Mountains (ref: Lin2007Ch.6)
    14. Dynamics of Orographic Precipitation (ref: Lin2007Ch11)