Mountain Meteorology

Course Objectives and Content

Course Content (cont.)

Grading

Source Material

Reading Assignments

First Reading Assignment

Field Project

VTMX Workshop

What is a mountain?

What are the effects of mountains?

Effects of Mountains

Whiteman (2000)

Precipitation

Slide 15

Barry (1992)

Mountains

Mt. Everest

High Elevation Observatories

Geographical controls of mountain climate (Barry 1992)

Thermally forced terrain circulations

Flow Interaction With Complex Terrain

Downslope Windstorms

Other subjects

1^st Homework Assignment

Homework Assignment #2

Parameters used to define flow (Smith 1979)