Lecture Notes

WEEK # TOPICS
1 Introduction (PDF)
1-2 Analysis Techniques (PDF)
3-4 The Angular Momentum and Kinetic Energy Budgets (PDF - 2.0 MB)
5 The Water Vapor Budget (PDF)
6-8 The Heat Budget (PDF - 1.7 MB)
9 Spectral Analysis (PDF - 1.3 MB)
10 Forcing of the Zonal Mean Circulations (PDF - 2.4 MB)
11 The Energy Cycle (PDF - 3.1 MB)
12 Numerical Models (PDF)