An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology

James R. Holton was Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington until his death in 2004. A member of the National Academies of Science, during his career he was awarded every major honor available in the atmospheric sciences including AGU's Revelle Medal. Gregory J. Hakim is Professor and Chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington. His research focuses on problems in climate reconstruction, predictability, data assimilation, atmospheric dynamics, and synoptic meteorology. He teaches courses in weather, atmospheric sciences, atmospheric structure and analysis, atmospheric motions, synoptic meteorology, balance dynamics, and weather predictability and data assimilation.

1. Introduction 2. Basic Conservation Laws 3. Elementary Applications of the Basic Equations 4. Circulation, Vorticity, and Potential Vorticity 5. Atmospheric Oscillations 6. Quasi-geostrophic Analysis 7. Baroclinic Development 8. The Planetary Boundary Layer 9. Mesoscale Circulations 10. The General Circulation 11. Tropical Dynamics 12. Middle Atmosphere Dynamics 13. Weather-Ocean Dynamics 14. Numerical Modeling and Prediction

Appendix A. Useful Constants and Parameters B. List of Symbols C. Vector Analysis D. Moisture Variables E. Standard Atmosphere Data F. Symmetric Baroclinic Oscillations G. Conditional Probability and Likelihood