EESD09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Synoptic Scale Meteorology, Jet Stream, Atmospheric Circulation
11 Dec 2019
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Lecture 3 - introduction to synoptic scale phenomenon. 1) rising air cools and sinking air warms. Features or weather events that covers hundreds or thousands of square km: cyclones. Midlatitude cyclones: anticyclones, supercell thunderstorms, tornadoes (mesoscale) Sea and land breezes also occur near the shores of large lakes, such as the great. Monsoon: monsoon wind system, asian monsoon, other monsoons. Mountain winds: valley breeze, mountain breeze, katabatic wind. More on local scale phenomenon in lecture 8. Observation: there is more energy released in the polar regions than is received from the sun. The reverse is true for the equatorial region. One large overturning atmospheric cell: air rises at the equator, moves poleward and then sinks at the pole, one large hadley cell, named after george hadley, british lawyer and amateur meteorologist (1685- 1768) According to this theory, toronto should only experience winter so this theory is not true or at least it doesn"t affect toronto"s altitude.
