Professor: David Schultz
Class time: Period 2, 29 October to 12 December
2007, 1215-1400, Monday, Wednesday
Class location: Physicum A115, A116
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor
Monday October 29:
Introduction and Reading Scientific Articles
“How to Read a Journal Article Critically” by Pamela Heinselman
Reading
Scientific Literature-Flinders University
Elena suggests the following method for
reading: silmäile-syvenny-muistele-kertaa
Etymology:
Silmäile= use your eyes (silmä=eye)
Syvenny= go deeper (=commit)(syvä=deep)
Muistele=recall (muisti=memory)
Kertaa = repeat
Wednesday October 31:
Practice Reading and Critiquing Journal Articles
Browning (1964): Airflow
and Precipitation Trajectories within Severe Local Storms Which Travel to the
Right of the Winds
Monday November
5: An Overview of Convection and
Synoptics
Doswell (2001): Severe
Convective Storms -- An Overview
Wednesday November 7:
An Overview of Convection and Synoptics
Doswell and Bosart (2001): Extratropical
Synoptic-Scale Processes and Severe Convection
Monday November 12:
Convective Climatologies
Zipser, E.J., D.J. Cecil, C. Liu, S.W. Nesbitt, and D.P.
Yorty, 2006: Where are the most intense
thunderstorms on Earth? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 1057–1071.
Hsu, C.P.F., and J.M. Wallace, 1976: The Global Distribution of the Annual and
Semiannual Cycles in Precipitation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 104, 1093–1101.
Wallace, J., 1975: Diurnal
Variations in Precipitation and Thunderstorm Frequency over the Conterminous
United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 103, 406–419.
Wednesday November
14: Convective Climatologies
Morel, C. and Senesi, S. 2002 A climatology of mesoscale convective systems
over Europe using satellite infrared imagery. II: Characteristics of European
mesoscale convective systems. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. , 128, 1973-1995.
(Skim Part I of this two-part series so that you have
some understanding of the methodology, but I don't expect you to read Part I as
carefully as Part II.)
Morel, C. and Senesi,
S. 2002 A climatology of mesoscale
convective systems over Europe using satellite infrared imagery. I:
Methodology. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. , 128, 1953-1971.
Monday November 19:
European Climatology
Lecture on Brooks et al. (2003) and new material
presented at the 2007 European Conference on Severe Storms
Wednesday November 21: Low-Level Wind Maxima
Stensrud (1996): Importance of Low-Level Jets to Climate: A Review.
J. Climate, 9, 1698-1711.
Uccellini,
L.W., 1980: On the Role of Upper Tropospheric
Jet Streaks and Leeside Cyclogenesis in the Development of Low-Level Jets in
the Great Plains. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 1689–1696.
Ari-Juhani
lecture on Finnish LLWM
Monday November
26: Mesoscale Processes
Johnson and Mapes (2001): Mesoscale
Processes and Severe Convective Weather, Chapter 3
Wednesday November
28: Mesoscale Convective Systems
Houze
(2004): Mesoscale Convective Systems. Sections 1-7 are required. Other sections are optional.
Monday December 3:
Wrapping It All Up: A Case Study
Thompson, R. L., and R.
Edwards, 2000: An overview of environmental conditions and forecast
implications of the 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak. Wea. and Forecasting, 15, 682–699.
Wednesday December 5:
Lecture by David Schultz
Liisa
and Eerik class presentations
Reading is optional.
Horgan, K.L., D.M. Schultz, J.E.
Hales, S.F. Corfidi, and R.H. Johns, 2007: A Five-Year Climatology of
Elevated Severe Convective Storms in the United States East of the Rocky
Mountains. Wea. Forecasting, 22, 1031–1044.
Van Den Broeke, M. S., D. M. Schultz,
R. H. Johns, J. S. Evans, and J. E. Hales, 2005: Cloud-to-ground lightning
production in strongly forced, low-instability convective lines associated with
damaging wind. Wea. Forecasting, 20, 517-530.
Monday December 10: Lightning
Williams (2001): The
Electrification of Severe Storms, Chapter 13
Antti presentation on
lightning in Finland
Wednesday December
12: Student Presentations
Class Project
Presentations. See handout.
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Last update: 9 November 2007