THE FRONTAL CYCLONE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how thermodynamics and dynamics of the atmosphere are brought to bear on the broad problem of the mid-latitude cyclone. Audience: Graduate 2. Acquire an understanding of the diagnosis of synoptic-scale vertical motions, frontal circulations, the process of cyclogenesis, and the potential vorticity perspective on cyclone life cycles. Audience: Graduate 3. Communicate diagnosis of the current weather and forecasts of future weather to both scientific and broad audiences. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop computer code to solve diagnostic second order differential equations that appear in modern cyclone and frontal theory. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how thermodynamics and dynamics of the atmosphere are brought to bear on the broad problem of the mid-latitude cyclone. Audience: Graduate 2. Acquire an understanding of the diagnosis of synoptic-scale vertical motions, frontal circulations, the process of cyclogenesis, and the potential vorticity perspective on cyclone life cycles. Audience: Graduate 3. Communicate diagnosis of the current weather and forecasts of future weather to both scientific and broad audiences. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop computer code to solve diagnostic second order differential equations that appear in modern cyclone and frontal theory. Audience: Graduate