EESA09H3 Lecture : Lecture 2-2012fall.pdf
3 Oct 2012
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Participation opportunity: severe weather experience: write in your own words a weather/wind experience that you have encountered in your life and send it to your. Some of these will be shared in class with your permission: check the blackboard for detail instruction, please be aware of the deadline. Outline: part 1 wind primer, what is wind, global circulation, stratospheric winds (qbo, part 2 research, air mass classification system (sheridan, quiz at the end of the lecture. What is wind: movement of air in an. Not directly, we can see the effects of wind in dust, tree movement. What is wind: what causes air to move, differences in air pressure, vertical or horizontal, differences in pressure forms a pressure gradient, air tends to flow from high pressure to low pressure, called a pressure gradient force. Fictitious force due to rotation of the earth.
