Announcements:

Thursday, December 13:

Final grades are posted under the grades link. I will turn in the offical grade reports on Monday morning. If you think an error has been made in computing your grade, please let me know before Monday. I wish you all a nice break.

Course Objectives:

This course examines basic weather phenomena, climate variability and climate change, and their associated effects on people. The possibility and implications of human-caused changes in the climate system are also discussed.

Web page:

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/fall07/atmo336/home.html

Course Hours/Location:

Section 1: Monday, Wednesday, Friday   11:00 - 11:50 AM  
Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS), Room 101.

Section 2: Tuesday, Thursday   9:30 - 10:45 AM  
Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS), Room 101.

Please Note: This is the course homepage and information for both section 1 and section 2 for the fall 2007 semester. Although the course content will be nearly the same for each section, I do not guarantee that they will be exactly the same. Where necessary, you will be prompted to select your specific section. You are responsible for what is covered in the section for which you are registered. Furthermore since each section will be given different exams, the final grade scale may be different for each section. Although I do not mind if you attend a lecture given for the other section (as long as there are empty seats available), you must take your exams with the section for which you are registered. If you take the exam with the wrong section without my approval, you will not receive credit for the exam.

Instructor:

Dr. Dale Ward, Research Scientist
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Email: ward@atmo.arizona.edu (Best way to contact me)
Office: Physics and Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 566D.
Office Hours: Thursday 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. or by appointment.
Phone: 626-7261 (voice mail, not best way to contact me)

Teaching Assistants:

Jason Criscio
Email: criscio@atmo.arizona.edu
Office: Physics and Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 526
Office Hours: Mondays, 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. or by appointment.
Phone: 621-6843

Christy King
Email: clking@email.arizona.edu
Office: Physics and Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 526
Office Hours: TBD or by appointment
Phone: 621-6843

Class Notes / Important Dates:

There is no textbook for this course. Lectures will be based on the Lecture Pages available from the class web page and additional material that will be distributed during lectrues throughout the semester.

Important dates, such as homework deadlines, exam dates, etc., will be posted in the class calendar.

Grading:

Homework:

The largest part of your homework grade will be based on two short term papers. The first will be due just prior to mid semester and the second will be due near the end of the semester.

Several other homework assignments will be given periodically during the semester. These will mainly consist of brief problem sets and short answer questions.

Your homework assignments will be graded on the quality and clarity of your English as well as their content. No cheating, fabrication, facilitating academic dishonesty, or plagiarism will be tolerated.

All homework assignments assigned during class will also be available on the class web page. Homework assignments turned in late will incur a grade reduction of 10% per day .

Homework accounts for 30% of your final class grade. Your overall homework grade will consist of three equal parts:

• Term paper 1 - 1/3 of homework grade (10% of final grade)
• Term paper 2 - 1/3 of homework grade (10% of final grade)
• All other homework assignments combined - 1/3 of homework grade (10% of final grade)

Exams:

There will be 3 in-class exams and a final exam. Exam grades account for 70% of your final grade. Each in-class exam will account for 23.33% of your final grade. The exams will consist of a mixture of multiple choice and short answer questions.

Questions from previous exams will be made available on the class web pages.

Section 1: Final exam is Friday, December 7 from 11:00 - 1:00
Section 2: Final exam is Thursday, December 13 from 8:00 - 10:00

Exam Policy:

You are expected to read the relevant material from the class notes. Exams will be taken from both the lecture material (including web pages and links therein) and the reading assignments.

Please contact the instructor (preferrably via e-mail) as soon as possible if you are unable to be in class for an exam. Assuming an acceptable excuse, a make-up exam will be arranged with sufficient proof. No make-up exam will be given unless you notify the instructor BEFORE missing the exam in class. In general, I would prefer make-up exams to be taken before the exam is given in class.

Grade Scale:

Your final grade will be curved and therefore depends on everybody else's grades. However, the grade scale will not be any more difficult than A(90%); B(80%); C(70%); D(60%).