Atlantic Hurricane
Principles of
Earth & Environmental Systems II
ENVI.2020
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Principles of
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| Atmospheric processes | |||
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| Thermodynamic diagram showing process and sounding curves. |
Examples of atmospheric stability. |
Skew T - Log P diagram. |
Orographic rainfall and rainshadow. |
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| Cloud forms. |
Cumulonimbus clouds and thunderstorms. |
Air masses of North America. | Weather fronts. |
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Upper-air waves.
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Development of a middle-latitude cyclone. |
Surface weather of a cyclone. |
Hurricane or Tropical cyclone. |
| Marine sedimentation | |||
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| 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. |
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| 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 | |||
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| Plot of sigma t surfaces on a salinity - temperature
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| Thermohaline circulation for the Atlantic ocean. | Rotary tides and cotidal lines. | Basins and resonance periods. | |
