Lecture Notes
Dec 05 - Hurricanes pt. 2, hurricane
review, final exam
information, last day of
class
Nov 30 - Quiz #4
Nov 28 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Nov 23 - Thanksgiving holiday
Nov 21 - Lightning
Nov 16 - Tornadoes pt. 2
Nov 14 - Thunderstorms, tornadoes pt. 1
Nov 09 - Surface winds, thermal circulations,
one- and three-cell models of global scale pressure and wind patterns
Nov 07- Newton's laws of motion, forces that
cause horizontal
winds, upper level winds, water draining from sinks
Nov 02 - Quiz #3
Oct 31 - Types of precipitation, weather radar
Oct 26 - Precipitation processes; collision
coalescence; cold clouds and the ice crystal process; snow, graupel,
and hail
Oct 24 - Cloud identification and
classification, satellite photographs.
Oct 19 - Humidity example problems, drying
moist air, rain shadow effect, dew and frost, condensation nuclei,
cloud in a bottle
Scattering of Light (covered in class on
Oct. 10)
Controls
of Temperature
Oct 17 - Humidity variables, evaporation and
saturation, humidity example problems, solar irradiance experiment
Oct 12 - Quiz #2
Oct 10 - Earth-atmosphere
energy balance, cloud effects on daytime and nighttime temperatures,
global warming
misconception, scattering of light
Oct 05 - Types of EM radiation, rules
governing emission of radiation, radiative equilibrium, filtering
effect of the atmosphere
Oct 03 - Energy transport by conduction,
convection, latent heat. Static electricity and EM radiation
Sep 28 - Summer solstice; seasonal change at
the equator; Chapter 2 introduction; energy, temperature, specific
heat; temperature scales
Sep 26 - Causes of the seasons, sun path
diagrams, bouyancy demonstration
Sep 21 - Quiz #1
Sep 19 - Pressure gradient, fronts, upper
level charts, surface - upper level interactions, hurricane
intensification
Sep 14 - Surface weather maps, station model
notation, isobars & isotherms, surface centers of low
and high pressure
Sep 12 - Ideal gas law; Charles' Law;
vertical forces on air parcels; Auguste, Jacques, and Bertrand Piccard
Sep 07 - Pressure changes with altitude,
vertical pressure force demonstration, stratospheric balloon flights,
Practice Quiz
Sep 05 - Mass, weight, density,
pressure. Pressure changes with altitude. Mercury
barometer, typical and record sea level pressures
Aug 31 - Carbon monoxide, atmospheric
stability, tropospheric ozone and photochemical smog, troposphere and
stratosphere
Aug 29 - Natural changes in climate,
predictions of future climate, Experiment #1, sulfur dioxide
Aug 24 - Relative humidity, monsoons,
Saffir-Simpson scale, CO2 and global warming, carbon cycle,
changes in
CO2 and temperature
Aug 22 - First day of class, course
information