Atlantic Hurricane

Principles of Earth & Environmental Systems II
ENVI.2020

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Atmospheric processes
ThermoDiagram.jpg (532973 bytes) Stability.jpg (539808 bytes) SkewTLogP.jpg (699099 bytes) Orographic Rainfall.jpg (112306 bytes)
Thermodynamic diagram showing process and sounding curves.

Examples of atmospheric stability.

Skew T - Log P diagram.

Orographic rainfall and rainshadow.

CloudForms.jpg (217885 bytes)

Thunderstorm.jpg (190126 bytes)

AirMasses.jpg (34242 bytes)

WeatherFronts.jpg (30390 bytes)

Cloud forms.

Cumulonimbus clouds and thunderstorms.

Air masses of North America. Weather fronts.
UpperAirWaves.jpg (28620 bytes)

DevelopCyclone.jpg (26753 bytes)

WeatherMap.jpg (44991 bytes)

Hurricane.jpg (33281 bytes)

Upper-air waves.

 

 

Development of a middle-latitude cyclone.

Surface weather of a cyclone.

Hurricane or Tropical cyclone.

Marine sedimentation
Deep sea sediments.jpg (48202 bytes) Manganese nodule.jpg (1879606 bytes) Manganese nodule filed.jpg (191086 bytes) Carbonate saturation.jpg (16806 bytes)
Distribution of deep sea sediments. Cross-section of a manganese nodule. Note concentric growth rings around two nucleation sites. Manganese nodule field. The bulk of the nodules are at the surface. Carbonate solubility in the oceans as a function of depth.
Sea floor spreading and sediments.jpg (758597 bytes) U & Th decay.jpg (626799 bytes) Decay depth curves.jpg (591434 bytes)  
Sea floor spreading and accumulation of various types of sediments. U and Th decay chains. Variations in radioactivity as a function of depth given a constant sedimentation rate.  
Physical processes in the ocean
T-S.jpg (192127 bytes) Water masses.jpg (48603 bytes) Temp-chlorinity.jpg (23916 bytes) Velocity-path1.jpg (32485 bytes)
Plot of sigma t surfaces on a salinity - temperature diagram.

 

Temperature - salinity diagrams for the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans showing the various water masses. Variations in temperatures of maximum density and freezing point as a function of chlorinity. Variations in sound ray path as a function of vertical velocity changes 1.
Velocity-path2.jpg (24699 bytes) Velocity-path3.jpg (25265 bytes) Ideal ocean.jpg (38820 bytes) Slope currents.jpg (44456 bytes)
Variations in sound ray path as a function of vertical velocity changes 2. SOFAR channel. Surface currents for an ideal Atlantic ocean. Development of slope currents due to density differences.
Thermohaline circulation.jpg (48515 bytes) cotidal lines.jpg (47730 bytes) Basins and tidal range.jpg (281155 bytes)  
Thermohaline circulation for the Atlantic ocean. Rotary tides and cotidal lines. Basins and resonance periods.  

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