Atmospheric Dynamics: Weather & Climate
Go beyond the daily forecast to master the complex physics of our atmosphere. Explore the mechanics of global wind patterns, the lifecycle of extreme storms, and the long-term drivers of climate change.
Like Duolingo, but for Atmospheric Dynamics: Weather & Climate. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
54 levels across 4 sections, about 108 minutes end to end, roughly 22 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Foundations of the Atmosphere, Moisture and Storm Formation, Forecasting and Synoptic Meteorology, and Climate Systems and Change. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Atmospheric Dynamics: Weather & Climate
- The troposphere is the lowest layer
- The stratosphere sits above the troposphere but below the mesosphere
- The ozone layer is located in the stratosphere
- Ozone absorbs ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun, converting it to heat
- The tropopause is a temperature inversion point
- Trace gases like CO2 and Ozone have high radiative forcing
- Why temperature increases in the stratosphere
- Warm air rising stops at the tropopause
- Nitrogen and Oxygen bulk mass vs thermal structure
- The role of the tropopause in containing weather
- The vertical sequence of atmospheric layers
- The relationship between specific gases and their thermal or structural roles
- Gravity concentrates the atmosphere's mass in the lowest layers
- Why temperature increases in the stratosphere compared to the troposphere
- Atmospheric pressure and density decrease exponentially with height
- The vertical sequence of atmospheric layers from the surface upward
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you were ascending in a high-altitude balloon, which layer would you enter directly after passing through the troposphere?
Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.
Where Atmospheric Dynamics: Weather & Climate takes you
- 1
Foundations of the Atmosphere
- Composition and Vertical Structure
- Solar Radiation and Heat Transfer
- Atmospheric Pressure and Density
- The Coriolis Effect and Global Circulation
- 2
Moisture and Storm Formation
- Humidity and Adiabatic Processes
- Cloud Classification and Microphysics
- Air Masses and Frontal Boundaries
- Convective Instability and Thunderstorms
- Supercells and Tornadogenesis
- Tropical Cyclones and Hurricanes
- 3
Forecasting and Synoptic Meteorology
- Reading Surface and Upper-Air Charts
- Numerical Weather Prediction Models
- Jet Streams and Rossby Waves
- 4
Climate Systems and Change
- The Köppen Climate Classification
- Oceanic Oscillations: El Niño and La Niña
- Paleoclimatology and Earth's History
- Anthropogenic Forcing and Feedback Loops
- Climate Modeling and Future Projections
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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