Lecture Notes
Dec 06 - Hurricane review, final exam
information, last day of classes
Dec 04 - Hurricanes pt. 2
Dec 01 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Nov 29 - Quiz #4
Nov 27 - Lightning
Nov 22 - class cancelled
Nov 20 - Tornadoes pt. 2
Nov 17 - Thunderstorms, tornadoes pt. 1
Nov 15 - Thunderstorm development
Nov 10 - Thermal circulation examples, one
cell and three cell models of
global scale pressure and
wind patterns
Nov 08 - Surface winds, thermal circulations
Nov 06 - Upper level winds, water draining
from sinks
Nov 03 - Laws of motion, forces that determine
horizontal winds, pressure gradient and Coriolis force
Nov 01 - Quiz #3
Oct 30 - Radar, satellite photographs
Oct 27 - Ice crystal process, types of
precipitation
Oct 25 - Precipitation processes,
collision-coalescence process, cold clouds
Oct 23 - Cloud identification and
classification
Oct 20 - Measuring humidity, dew and
frost, condensation nuclei, cloud in a bottle
Oct 18 - Drying moist air, rain shadow
effect, scattering of light
Controls of Temperature
Oct 16 - Humidity problem examples
Oct 13 - Humidity variables, evaporation &
saturation, solar irradiance experiment
Oct 11 - Quiz #2
Oct 09 - Earth-atmosphere energy balance,
effects of clouds on daytime and nighttime temperatures, common
misconception
Oct 06 - EM radiation emitted by earth and
sun, radiative equilibrium, absorption of light by atmosphere,
greenhouse effect
Oct 04 - Electric fields, EM radiation, rules
governing the emission of EM radiation
Oct 02 - Energy transport by convection and
latent heat, wind chill, static electricity and electric fields
Sep 29 - Temperature, energy, heat, and
specific heat; energy needed to evaporate nitrogen, energy transport by
conduction
Sep 27 - The solstices, seasonal changes at
the equator, use care crossing the street at sunrise & sunset,
introduction to Chapter 2
Sep 25 - Causes of the seasons, the equinoxes
Sep 22 - Relationships between upper-level and
surface weather charts, hurricane intensification, bouyancy
demonstration
Sep 20 - Quiz #1
Sep 18 - Pressure gradient, warm and cold
fronts, upper level charts
Sep 15 - Surface weather maps, station model
notation, isobars & isotherms, surface high and low pressure centers
Sep 13 - Ideal
gas law, Charles' Law,
vertical forces on air parcels
Sep 11 - Mercury barometer, typical &
record
sea level pressures, pressure & density changes with altitude,
pressure force demonstration
Sep 08 - Mass and weight, pressure,
pressure changes with altitude
Sep 06 - Student preceptor information,
stratospheric explorations by balloon, Practice Quiz
Sep 01 - Tropospheric ozone and
photochemical smog, troposphere and stratosphere, mass and weight
Aug 30 - Atmospheric stability, sulfur dioxide
and acid rain, tropospheric ozone
Aug 28 - Natural changes in climate,
predictions of future climate, carbon monoxide
Aug 25 - Carbon cycle, past changes in CO2
and
temperature, Experiment #1
Aug 23 - Dew point and relative humidity,
monsoons, Saffir Simpson scale, carbon dioxide and global warming
Aug 21 - First day of class, course
information