280355 VO PM-Met-9: Theoretical Meteorology III (NPI) (2010W)

The overall aim of the course is to introduce and adopt a concept of instability that leads to the formation of eddies at many scales in the atmosphere. On the synoptic-scale, the quasi-geostrophic theory and analysis is applied to the synoptic-scale motions that result from baroclinic instability. The course also provides an introduction to the dynamics and phenomena at the mesoscale, some of which result from small-scale instabilities.