Week 4

Topics:  Horizontal momentum equations
              Thermal wind balance
               Continuity equation
              Boundary layers

Reading:  required: W&H 8.1 to 8.6
                 suggested: Houghton, chapter 7.

Notes:

• Scale analysis - horizontal equation and geostrophic balance (pdf)
• Thermal wind (pdf)
• Continuity (pdf)
• Thermodynamic equation (pdf)
• Cheat sheet of everything to date (pdf)