ESS5
Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
Atmospheric Sciences
Description and understanding of
phenomena in the atmospheres of the earth and the other planets.
Meteorology
Concern with atmospheric phenomena
and their time-dependent behavior.
Climate
Concern with the long-term
statistics of the atmosphere: such as its general circulation
Physical Meteorology
Atmospheric’s structure,
composition, thermodynamics; radiation transfer; cloud and precipitation formation,
etc.
Dynamic Meteorology
Use principles of fluid dynamics to
understand large-scale atmospheric motions and their evolutions.
Synoptic Meteorology
Description, analysis, and forecasting of large-scale weather
phenomena.