Week 2

• Notes: ideal gas to geopotential heights (pdf)
• Handout: geopotential heights (ppt)
• Vertical temperature structure and atmospheric stability (pdf)
• Examples of potential temperature variations with height (ppt)
  

Reading:

Important:
Wallace and Hobbs, 3.1 to 3.4, 3.6
Useful:
Houghton, 1.4
Holton, 1.6 (sort of)