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Important notes • These slides show some figures and videos prepared by Robert G.
Fovell (RGF) for his “Meteorology” course, published by The Great Courses (TGC). Unless otherwise identified, they were created by RGF.
• In some cases, the figures employed in the course video are different from what I present here, but these were the figures I provided to TGC at the time the course was taped.
• These figures are intended to supplement the videos, in order to facilitate understanding of the concepts discussed in the course. These slide shows cannot, and are not intended to, replace the course itself and are not expected to be understandable in isolation.
• Accordingly, these presentations do not represent a summary of each lecture, and neither do they contain each lecture’s full content.
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Animations linked in the PowerPoint version of these slides may also be found here: http://people.atmos.ucla.edu/fovell/meteo/
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Pressure
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Picture a vertical cross-section
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Isobar = line of equal pressure Here are 1000 and 500 mb
isobars
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Half of the atmospheric mass is found in between…
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Only 5.5 km/3.5 mi thick… on average
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Temperature affects the thickness of this layer
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Temperature affects the thickness of this layer
Pressure decreases with height… faster in colder air
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Temperature differences make pressure differences
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Start with the same thickness everywhere.
This implies temperature is the same
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Introduce a T difference. The 500 mb isobar is now tilted down
towards the colder air
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Pick a point along the 500 mb isobar. Do you see a horizontal pressure
difference?
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Pressure differences make winds. Nature wants to move mass from H to L. Wind! But we’re not done…
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This wind (mass flow) has consequences...
Transport of mass (air) out of the warmer column causes its surface pressure to drop. That mass collects in the colder column, making its surface pressure to rise.
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So the 1000 mb isobar is now tilted as well.
Now we have a circulation. The circulation is called thermally direct.
Notice at the surface the flow is cold towards warm.
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Apply to the sea-breeze
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We start with ocean and land
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Which surface absorbs more solar radiation during the day?
The ocean does, because it’s darker than land when the sun is high in the sky. But, the ocean
doesn’t heat up much during the day.
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The sea-breeze circulation • Warm air rising over the
heated land • Cool air sinking over the
cooler ocean • The surface sea-breeze
blowing inland • It’s about 1-2 km deep
or so
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Example: Los Angeles sea-breeze
• Colored field is surface temperature (green = cool; red = hot)
• Greens cool… reds will be hot
• Vectors are surface winds • For 12Z August 1 • NOON in London • 5AM PDT • Cool everywhere • Winds are weak
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Example: Los Angeles sea-breeze
• By 19Z… Noon in LA
• Land’s warmed up a lot
• Little temperature rise over the sea… thermal inertia
• Winds have increased
• Blowing sea to land
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Example: Los Angeles sea-breeze
• 00Z August 2… midnight in London… 5PM August 1 in LA
• The wind vector LENGTH indicates wind speed
• Winds a lot stronger now
• Very hot inland, especially SFV
• The cool sea air is keeping UCLA a lot cooler
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Example: Los Angeles sea-breeze
• After sunset the land cools off quickly (low thermal inertia)
• And as the temperature difference disappears, the winds die down
• Warmest in SFV; sea-breeze reaches there last and is weakest
If land becomes colder at night, a land-breeze may develop
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Sea- and land-breezes
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Wind chill
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Consider a familiar example: hot soup in a cool room
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The soup loses heat energy to the room air via conduction
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This warms up the air in contact with the soup. Air, a poor conductor, does not carry
this heat energy vertically away efficiently
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As a result, the soup-air T difference DECREASES. This decreases the heat loss.
The air is actually acting as an INSULATING BLANKET helping to keep the soup warm
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BLOW that insulating blanket away, replacing it with more cool air.
Temperature difference is again LARGER and the heat loss has increased.
The soup has been subjected to wind chill
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Descending and ascending air
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DESCENDING AIR
• Descending air warms at a RAPID RATE
• 10C/km ~ 30F/mi • Temperature change due
to VOLUME CHANGE ALONE
• There is NO heat transfer • “Dry adiabatic” • Ascending air cools at that
same rate, at least at first!
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“Santa Ana” winds
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Topography of Southwestern US
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Colored field: density of the air at 850 mb level (about 1.5 km or 1 mi above sea-level.) Red = less dense,
blue = more dense
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Added 850 mb wind vectors. At this time, the air in Southern California has
low density and LA has a seabreeze
For animation, see http://people.atmos.ucla.edu/fovell/meteo/
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“Santa Ana” winds become warm (or hot) owing to elevation change
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