Atmospheric Thermodynamics

Academic year: 2021/2022
Semester: summer

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

Basic information on cloud thermodynamical and microphysical processes responsible for cloud droplet formation and evolution, and interactions aerosol - cloud - precipirtation will be presented. The existing knowledge will be complemented with open questions and new challenges in cloud physics.

Description of microphysics in cloud numerical models will be also presented.

We will discuss observation and measurements techniques in cloud physics and interpretation of results.


Salby M. L., Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics. Academic Press.	Rogers, R.R. and M.K. Yau (1989). A Short Course in Cloud Physics. New York: Pergamon Press, 293 pp.	J.A. Curry and P.J. Webster Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceanes. Academic Press.

H. R. Pruppacher and J. D. Klett. Microphysics of Cloud and Precipitation. Springer.	J.H. Seinfeld and S.N. Pandis. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Wiley.	J. M. Wallace and P. V. Hobbs. Atmospheric Science. An Introductory Survey. Academic Press.

J.V. Iribarne and W.L. Godson. Atmospheric Thermodynamics. Springer.

COURSES MATERIALS

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Lecture 1 : Thermodynamics of dry air.

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thermodynamics_1.pdf

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Lecture 2 : Laws of thermodynamics

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thermodynamics_2.pdf

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Lecture 3 : The second law of thermodynamic. The fundamental relations.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_3.pdf

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Lecture 4 : Description of moist unsaturated air.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_4.pdf

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Lecture 5 : Phase change.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_5.pdf

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Lecture 6 : Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_6.pdf

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Lecture 7 : Description of air with saturated water vapour.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_7.pdf

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Lecture 8 : Isobaric processes.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_8.pdf

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Lecture 9 : Thermodynamic behaviour associated with vertical motion.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_9.pdf

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Lecture 10 : Thermodynamic diagrams.

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thermodynamics_10.pdf

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Lecture 11 : Stability of the atmosphere - 1.

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thermodynamics_11.pdf

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Lecture 12 : Stability of the atmosphere - 2.

Lecture documents:
thermodynamics_12.pdf

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CONSTANTS

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constants.pdf

Tutorial 1 : Vertical structure of the atmosphere.

Lecture documents:
tutorial_1_vertical_structure.pdf

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Tutorial 2 : Latent heat.

Lecture documents:
tutorial_2_latent_heat.pdf

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Tutorial 3 : Humidity, Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

Lecture documents:
tutorial_3_humidity.pdf

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Tutorial 4 : Isobaric processes.

Lecture documents:
tutorial_4_isobaric.pdf

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Tutorial 5: Vertical characteristics of the atmosphere.

Lecture documents:
tutorial_5_vertical.pdf

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Tutorial 6 : Stability of the atmosphere.

Lecture documents:
tutorial_6_stability.pdf

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