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Overview I: Atmospheric Sciences at a Glance
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The mission of the atmospheric sciences is to understand and predict weather, climate, and
related disasters
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RadiationCloud/precipitation
Shallow convection Boundary layer turbulence
Mesoscale convective system ThunderstormTornado
Heat waveMidlatitude cycloneTropical cyclone
Diurnal variation
Madden-Julian Oscillation Tropical wavesAnnular modes
100,000yr100yr10yr1yr1mon1day1min1sec10-15sec
Global climate system
Globe
Continent
State
City
Football field
1 mm
1 m
Spatial Scale
Time Scale
10-4 m Composition
Monsoon
ENSOQBO
Global warmingAMOPDO
Ice ageGlacial cycleAbrupt change
Weather
Climate
Climate Change
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Weather-related Disasters: Tropical Cyclones(Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cyclones)
Global distribution of the paths of major tropical cyclones during the last 150 years. On average, ~ 80 per year around the world.
U.S. Fatalities: normal year 21, Katrina 1836
U.S. Property loss: normal year $5400 million, Katrina $84000 million
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Weather-related Disasters: Tornadoes
U.S. Annual mean fatalities 56, annual mean loss $777 million
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Weather-related Disasters: Winter Storms
U.S. Annual mean fatalities 57, annual mean loss $329 million
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Weather-related Disasters in US
Hurricanes
Blizzards Extreme cold
Flooding Lightning Fire Tornadoes
Hails
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Climate-related Disasters over the world Example 1: El Nino
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Climate-related Disasters over the world Example 2: Global Warming
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Effects on society
Hurricane Sandy in 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeaG1jRLIBw
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Weather/Climate and Business- Insurance companies
History of Atlantic hurricane activity
The $15 billion insurance loss of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 led to the insolvency of 12 insurance companies and significant market disruption.
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Climate Change & Economy/Engineering
- Green Economy
• Renewable energy• Green buildings• Clean transportation• Water management• Waste management• Land management
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Weather/climate and International Relationships: Water conflict
From The African Water Page
Six nations share the watershed of the Mekong, which is affected by unconstrained development, natural droughts, and climate change
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Climate and History/Politics- Collapse of Maya civilization
and Chinese ancient dynasties
Droughts
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The Atmospheric Sciences:Predicting weather and climate
Video: Flying into hurricanes•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAyfHqEW3gk
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The modern climatology (meteorology) was born in the 1940s (a very young science!), but has been
growing very fast!
Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898-1957) Generally considered as the “father of modern meteorology”. Founder of the “Chicago School of Meteorology”.
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Observing the atmosphere: Surface weather stations
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Observing the atmosphere: Upper-air sounding stations
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Observing the atmosphere: Weather Radar
First weather radar (NOAA NSSL)
Current NEXRAD Doppler radar (NOAA NWS)
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Observing the atmosphere: Shipborne radar
From Mapes and Lin (2005)
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Observing the atmosphere: Aircraft
NOAA P3NASA unmanned Global Hawk used for hurricane research(from NASA)
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NASA’s Earth Observation System
A-Train Satellites
Observing the atmosphere: Satellite
TIROS-1 (1960) World’s first weather satellite
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Climate Modeling on World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Japan’s Earth Simulator (World’s #1 in 2004, #20 now)
OSC’s new IBM machine World’s top 50 now
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World’s Major Climate Modeling Centers
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Summary• The mission of meteorology is to understand and
predict weather- and climate-related disasters (e.g. tornados, hurricanes, El Nino and global warming).
• 3 scales: weather, climate, climate change• The modern climatology (meteorology) was born in
the 1940s (a very young science!), but has been growing very fast! Now we have a global observational network with many satellites, ships, radars and surface stations, as well as very comprehensive prediction models running on the world’s largest computers.