課程資訊
課程名稱
全球大氣環流
GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION 
開課學期
98-2 
授課對象
理學院  大氣科學研究所  
授課教師
許晃雄 
課號
AtmSci5006 
課程識別碼
229 U2090 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期一3,4(10:20~12:10)星期四3(10:20~11:10) 
上課地點
大氣系A100大氣系A100 
備註
總人數上限:47人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/982gac 
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課程概述

「全球大氣環流」介紹大氣中行星尺度環流的特性與相關機制。課程內容包含:大氣的熱機、緯向平均子午環流、中緯度瞬變渦流、波的傳遞與滯留渦流、三度空間全球環流、環流的低頻變化。 

課程目標
「全球大氣環流」介紹大氣中行星尺度環流的特性與相關機制。課程內容包含:大氣的熱機、緯向平均子午環流、中緯度瞬變渦流、波的傳遞與滯留渦流、三度空間全球環流、環流的低頻變化。 
課程要求
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
James, I. N., 1994: Introduction to Circulating Atmosphere. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 422pp. Chapter 3-7.
 
參考書目
參考資料:
Grotjahn, R., 1993: Global atmospheric circulations: Observations and theories.
Oxford University Press, 429pp.
Peixoto, J. P., and A. H. Oort, 1992: Physics of climate. American Institute of
Physics, 520pp.
Class notes by J.M. Wallace, U. Washington.
Holton, J. R., 2004: An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology – Chapter 10. Academic Press, 535pp.
Hoskins, B.J., and R. P. Pearce, 1983: Large-scale Dynamical Processes in the Atmosphere. Academic Press, 397pp.

大氣環流圖集:
1. Hoskins, B. J., H.-H. Hsu, I. N. James, M. Masutani, P. D. Sardeshmukh and G.
H. White, 1989: Diagnostics of the global atmospheric circulation based on
ECMWF analyses 1979-1989. World Meteorology Organization, WMO/TD -
No. 326, 217pp.
2. Schubert, S., C.-K. Park, W. Higgins, S. Moorthi, M. Suarez, 1990: An atlas of ECMWF analyses: Part I - first moment quantities. NASA technical memorandum 100747.
3. Schubert, S., C.-K. Park, W. Higgins, S. Moorthi, M. Suarez, 1990: An atlas of ECMWF analyses: Part II - second moment quantities. NASA technical memorandum 100762.
4. ECMWF Reanalysis: RA40 Atlas
(http://www.ecmwf.int/research/era/ERA- 40_Atlas/index.html)
5. NCEP Reanalysis: Electronic Atlas
(http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ncep_reanalysis/)
 
評量方式
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課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/22,2/25  0. Introduction
Ref.: Lorenz, E.N., 1967: The nature and theory of the general circulation of the
atmosphere. Chapter 1 and Chapter 4 (p.59-78).
 
第2週
3/01,3/04  1. The atmospheric heat engine (Chapter 3)
1.1 Global energy balance
 
第3週
3/08,3/11  1.2 Local radiative balance
1.3 Thermodynamics of fluid motion
 
第4週
3/15,3/18  1.4 Observed atmospheric heating 
第5週
3/22,3/25  2. The zonal mean meridional circulation (Chapter 4)
2.1 Observational basis
2.2 The Held-Hou model of the Hadley circulation
2.3 More realistic models of the Hadley circulation
 
第6週
3/29,4/01  2.4 Zonal mean circulation in midlatitudes
2.5 A Lagrangian view of the meridional circulation
 
第7週
4/05,4/08  2.4 The isentropic zonally averaged mass circulation
Ref.: Townsend, R. D. and D. R. Johnson, 1985: A diagnostic study of the isentropic zonally averaged mass circulation during the First GARP Global Experiment. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 1565-1579.
 
第8週
4/12,4/15  3. Transient disturbances in the midlatitudes (Chapter 5)
3.1 Timescales of atmospheric motion
3.2 The structure of transient eddies
 
第9週
4/19,4/22  3.3 Atmospheric energetics 
第10週
4/26,4/29  3.4 Baroclinic lifecycles and high frequency transients 
第11週
5/03,5/06  4. Wave propagation and steady eddies (Chapter 6)
4.1 Observations of steady eddies
4.2 Barotropic model
 
第12週
5/10,5/13  4.3 Application to observed steady eddies 
第13週
5/17,5/20  4.4 Vertical propagation of Rossby waves
4.5 The Eliassen-Palm flux
 
第14週
5/24,5/27  4.6 Eliassen-Palm fluxes and baroclinic lifecycles 
第15週
5/31,6/03  5. Three-dimensional aspects of the global circulation (Chapter 7)
5.1 Zonal variations in the tropics
5.2 Monsoon circulations
 
第16週
6/07,6/10  5.3 Midlatitude storm zones and jets 
第17週
6/14,6/17  5.4 Interactions between transient and steady eddies
5.5 Global responses to tropical forcing