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This assignment involves completing 10 problems related to atmospheric thermodynamics: 1) Calculate the mass of air in a column extending from the surface to great heights. 2) Find the saturation adiabatic lapse rate at 26°C and 1013 hPa with a mixing ratio of 21.85 g/kg. 3) Calculate the temperature and potential temperature of an air parcel lifted over a mountain. 4) Describe relations between thermodynamic diagrams in terms of various properties. 5) Derive a formula for density dependence on height with constant lapse rate.

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Assignment 2

This assignment involves completing 10 problems related to atmospheric thermodynamics: 1) Calculate the mass of air in a column extending from the surface to great heights. 2) Find the saturation adiabatic lapse rate at 26°C and 1013 hPa with a mixing ratio of 21.85 g/kg. 3) Calculate the temperature and potential temperature of an air parcel lifted over a mountain. 4) Describe relations between thermodynamic diagrams in terms of various properties. 5) Derive a formula for density dependence on height with constant lapse rate.

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Assignment # 2

1. Show that the mass of a vertical column of air of unit cross-sectional area in a hydrostatic
atmosphere extending from the ground to very great heights equals p o/g, where po is the
surface pressure and g is the acceleration due to gravity. Also estimates the total mass of
the atmosphere.
2. Find the saturation adiabatic lapse rate of the air at 26oC, pressure of 1013 hPa and
having saturation –mixing ratio is 21.85g kg-1. Use the specific heat at constant pressure
of dry air = 1004 Jkg-1K-1.
3. An air parcel at 1000 mbar has a temperature of 20oC and a mixing ratio of 10 g kg-1. The
parcel is lifted to 700 mbar by passing over mountain. During the ascent 80% of the
water vapor that condenses falls out of the parcel. Find the temperature and potential
temperature of the air when it returns to 1000 mbar on the other side of mountain.
4. Describes the relations between the all thermodynamic diagrams in terms of energy,
temperature, pressure, temp vs potential temp angle, potential temperature and lapse rate.
5. Derive a formula for the dependence of density upon height in an atmosphere of constant
lapse rate of temperature.
6. What is the elevation in the geopotential feet if a pressure of 700 mb is found on a certain
day to be at an elevation of 3000 geopotential meters?
7. Show that the rate of change of temperature with height in a homogeneous atmosphere is
constant and about six times larger than the temperature decreases normally in the lower
atmosphere.
8. A thickness atmosphere layer is isothermal with temperature -3 oC. A dry parcel is given
an upward impetus which is enough to cause the parcel to rise 1km above its original
level before it begins to sink again. Calculate the energy per unit mass which had to be
imparted to the parcel to produce this displacement (T= 273K).
9. Show that Γs ≤ Γd in the mathematical range of temperature.
10. Calculate the numerical value of the saturated pseudo adiabatic lapse rate in oC km-1 for p
= 300mb and T = -20oC.

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