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o Structure of the Earth's atmosphere
o Fundamental forces and equations of motion for fluids
o Equation of continuity, Eq. of the moment, hydrostatic balance
o Atmospheric Motion Scales
o Fluid mechanics in rotating reference systems
o Primitive equations, f-plane and Beta-plane
o Geostrophic Balance
o How to view weather and climate variables
o Visualization tools and climate data
o Waves in fluids, gravity waves, static stability and adiabatic Lapse Rate
o Shallow water model
o How to make weather forecasts with maps and data
o Boussinesq approximation
o Vorticity and circulation theorems
o Large-scale and local-scale predictive models
o Lorentz model
o Potential vorticity
o Geostrophic Theory
o Quasi-geostrophic theory
o Ekman's layer and Ekman's spiral
or Rossby Waves. WKB approximation, topographic and gravity waves.
o Barotropic Atmosphere
o Baroque atmosphere
o Radiative Balance in the atmosphere

o G. K. Vallis - Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, Second Edition
o G. K. Vallis - Essentials of Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
o R. Holton - An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology - Academic Press, 2013