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| 0341-2007-01 | Experiments in Atmospheric Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
The students will perform eight experiments, done in pairs, which demonstrate a variety of atmospheric phenomena:
The balance of forces in a Hurricane
Convection (as in the boundary layer or in clouds)
The general circulation of the atmosphere: the Hadley cell and mid latitude storms
Topographic planetary waves
Radiative transfer- Beer-Lambert law and Rayleigh scattering
Basic principles of remote sensing
Energy balance and climate
Atmospheric VLF electric signals
The students will use a variety of instruments, including Weather in a Tank (a rotating water tank), a spectrophotometer and a VLF receiver, as well as a variety of data acquisition and processing software, the main one of which is MATLAB
The course has a detailed moodle web page which includes an instructions file for each lab as well as general instructions and details aobut the final exam.
Additional links: http://www.tau.ac.il/~harnik/Experiments_course.pdf
The balance of forces in a Hurricane
Convection (as in the boundary layer or in clouds)
The general circulation of the atmosphere: the Hadley cell and mid latitude storms
Topographic planetary waves
Radiative transfer- Beer-Lambert law and Rayleigh scattering
Basic principles of remote sensing
Energy balance and climate
Atmospheric VLF electric signals
The students will use a variety of instruments, including Weather in a Tank (a rotating water tank), a spectrophotometer and a VLF receiver, as well as a variety of data acquisition and processing software, the main one of which is MATLAB
The course has a detailed moodle web page which includes an instructions file for each lab as well as general instructions and details aobut the final exam.
Additional links: http://www.tau.ac.il/~harnik/Experiments_course.pdf