Undergraduate students: please do 1-5 only, or 6 only.
Graduate students do 6 only.
#1 (20 points) Exercise 3, Hartmann Book (Chapter 4), page 114
#2 (20 points) Exercise 4, Hartmann Book (Chapter 4), page 114
#3 (20 points) Exercise 5, Hartmann Book (Chapter 4), page 114
#4 (20 points) Exercise 2, Hartmann Book (Chapter 5), page 135
#5 (20 points) Download a scientific paper by Lo et al. (Lo, J. C.-F., Z.-L. Yang, and R. Pielke Sr., 2008: Assessment of dynamical climate downscaling methods using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D09112, doi:10.1029/2007JD009216; click pdf to download). Read the paper, in particular, Figure 8, and explain why precipitation is more accurately simulated (as reflected in higher correlations between observations and computer simulations) over the mountainous regions in the western US than else where.
#6. Click here for the programming homework.