Ch. 6 and 7 Weather, Climate and Biomes Mr. Lesley APES.
Diagnostics MJR 1 ECMWF Training Course 2009 – NWP-PR Atmospheric Variability & Error: Tropics Mark Rodwell 18 March 2009.
Atmospheric Circulations Prof. John Toohey-Morales, CCM St. Thomas University Miami Gardens, Florida.
The Global Salinity Budget From before, salinity is mass salts per mass seawater (S = 1000 * kg salts / kg SW) There is a riverine source …BUT… salinity.
To be able to explain the characteristics and causes of hurricanes What is latitude? Why is it relevant? What is longitude? Why is this relevant?
Science of Forecasting Waves GNM 1136. Challenge – Think-Pair-Share What controls the weather on Earth? What type of climate is NJ? What are the prevailing.
Global Circulation. Global wind field - January Global wind field - July.
Global Conveyor Belt. Conveyor Belt Circulation Diagnose conveyor belt pathways – Mass, volume, heat & salt budgets (inverse analysis) Water mass analysis.
Class 3b: Winds (global and local). Atmospheric pressure.