Lecture Notes
Wed., Dec. 10 - Final Exam Review Pt. 1
Mon., Dec. 8 - Course evaluation, Final Exam information
Fri., Dec. 5 - Rocket triggered
lightning, lightning safety, NATS 101 finale
Wed., Dec. 3 - Quiz #4
Mon., Dec. 1 - Lightning pt. 1
Mon., Nov. 24 - Hurricanes pt. 2
Fri., Nov. 21 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Wed., Nov. 19 - Tornadoes pt. 2 life
cycle and tornado damage, cats
Mon., Nov. 17 - Severe thunderstorms and
supercells, tornadoes pt. 1 general characteristics
Fri., Nov. 14 - Thunderstorms
Wed., Nov. 12 - 1-cell and 3-cell models
of the earth's global scale circulation
Mon., Nov. 10 - Cause of the Coriolis
force, draining water, thermal circulations
Fri., Nov. 7 - Why upper level and
surface winds blow the way they do (in 10 fairly easy steps)
Wed., Nov. 5 - Quiz #3
Mon., Nov. 3 - Ice crystal process pt. 2,
types of precipitation
Fri., Oct. 31 - Cold clouds, ice crystal
process pt. 1, grade summaries, collision coalescence process
Wed., Oct. 29 - Infrared and visible
satellite photographs, precipitation producing processes
Mon., Oct. 27 - Identifying and naming
clouds, 10 main cloud types
Fri., Oct. 24 - Condensation nuclei, fog
& haze, radiation and steam fog, cloud in a bottle demonstration,
clouds clean air
Wed., Oct. 22 - Drying moist air,
rainshadow effect, measuring humidity; dew, frost, and frozen dew
Mon., Oct. 20 - Reward challenge, water
evaporation & temperature, water vapor saturation of air,
humidity example problems
Fri., Oct. 17 - Introduction to humidity
variables
Wed., Oct. 15 - Quiz #2
Mon., Oct. 13 - A strong cold front, effects
of clouds on
daytime and nighttime temperatures, global warming
Fri., Oct. 10 - Compact fluorescent
bulbs, radiative equilibrium, filtering effect of the atmosphere,
greenhouse effect
Wed., Oct. 8 - Stefan-Boltzmann law,
Wien's law, EM radiation emitted by the earth & sun, causes of the
seasons,
climate in Pohnpei, FSM; tropical
romance,
pigs, kava, betelnut
Causes of the Seasons
Mon., Oct. 6 - Static electricity;
electric fields; electromagnetic radiation, rules governing the
emission of EM radiation
Fri., Oct. 3 - (Buddhist monks),
Archimedes
law, latent
heat energy transport
Controls of
Temperature
Wed., Oct. 1 - Energy transport:
conduction, convection, forces that cause air to rise & sink, wind
chill
Mon., Sep. 29 - Energy,
temperature, heat, specific heat, temperature scales
Fri., Sep. 26 - Upper level charts, the
Piccards, Introduction to Energy, energy transport, energy balance, Mt.
Everest
Wed., Sep. 24 - Quiz #1( Somewhere over the
Rainbow/What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole )
Mon. Sep. 22 - Fall equinox, pressure
gradients and wind speed, cold and warm fronts
Fri., Sep. 19 - Station model notation,
isobars & isotherms, surface high and low pressure centers
Wed., Sep. 17 - Ideal gas law, Charles
Law, Station model notation
Mon., Sep. 15 - Average and extreme sea
level pressures, upward pressure force and demonstration,
air density changes with altitude,
troposphere and stratosphere
Fri., Sep. 12 - Pressure and pressure
units, vertical pressure changes and rate of change, mercury barometer
Wed., Sep. 10 - Mass and weight, Practice
Quiz
Mon., Sep. 8 - Carbon cycle, climate
change pt. 2
Fri., Sep. 5 - Acid rain, particulate
matter, CO2 and global warming pt. 1
Wed., Sep. 3 - Air pollutants pt. 2:
ozone & photochemical smog, sulfur dioxide
Fri., Aug. 29 - Air pollutants pt. 1: carbon
monoxide,
temperature inversions, scattering of light
Wed., Aug. 27 - Stromatolites, banded iron and
origin of oxygen in the atmosphere; greenhouse gases
and air pollutants
Mon., Aug. 25 - First day of class,
composition of the atmosphere, dew point temperature,
evolution of the
atmosphere