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Week 1: Tropical Lows (inc. Hurricanes) (pdf format)
Week 2: Review of Midlatitude Cyclones, and Overview of Weather Data Visualization Tools (pdf format)
Week 3: Kinematics of the Wind Field (pdf format)
Week 4: Balanced Wind Approximations (pdf format)
Week 5: Hydrostatic Equation and Thermal Wind (pdf format)
Week 6: Quasigeostrophic Theory, Q-G Height Tendency Equation (pdf format)
Week 7: Quasigeostrophic Omega Equation (pdf format)
Week 8: Trenberth Formulation of Omega Eqn and Q-Vectors (pdf format)
Week 9: Fronts and Frontogenesis, Jet Streaks (pdf format)
Week 10: Baroclinic Development (surface pressure tendencies) (pdf format)
Week 11: Isentropic Analysis (pdf format)
Week 12: Tieing it all Together -- Conveyor Belt Theory and Case Studies (pdf format)
Week 13: New Conceptual Models, NWP, Ensembles (pdf format)
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