Lecture Notes
Wed., Dec. 9 - Last day of classes, Final Exam
review pt. 1
Fri., Dec. 4 - Hurricanes pt. 2
Mon., Nov. 30 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Fri., Nov. 27 - Thanksgiving Holiday
Wed., Nov. 25 - class cancelled
Mon., Nov. 23 - Lightning
Fri., Nov. 20 - Tornadoes
Wed., Nov. 18 - Thunderstorms pt. 2: gust
fronts & microbursts. Severe & supercell thunderstorms,
wall clouds & hook echoes
Mon., Nov. 16 - Thunderstorms pt. 1
Fri., Nov. 13! - Examples of thermal
circulations, one-cell and
three-cell models of the earth's global scale '
pressure and wind patterns, ocean
currents, SW monsoon
Wed., Nov. 11 - Veteran's Day holiday
Mon., Nov. 9 - Cause of the Coriolis force,
water draining from sinks and toilets, surface winds, thermal
circulations
Fri., Nov. 6 - Surface and upper-level winds
Wed., Nov. 4 - Quiz #3 (before
the
quiz
some
music
from Domingo
DeGrazia: "Tres Ninas", "Red Sunrise", "August Heat")
Mon., Nov. 2 - Cold clouds, ice crystal
process, types of precipitation
Fri., Oct. 30 - Satellite photographs,
precipitation producing processes, collision-coalescence process
Wed., Oct. 28 - Cloud identification and
classification
Mon., Oct. 26 - Heat index, types of fog,
cloud in a bottle demonstration, clouds and climate change
Fri., Oct. 23 - Rain shadow effect, measuring
humidity, dew & frost, condensation nuclei, haze and fog
Wed., Oct. 21 - Humidity problems, drying
moist air, rain shadow effect. measuring humidity, dew & frost
Mon., Oct. 19 - Humidity variables,
evaporation rate, saturation, humidity problem example
Fri., Oct. 16 - Effects of clouds on daytime
and nighttime
temperatures, global warming misconception,
controls of climate, an awesome
field experiment, introduction to humidity variables
Controls of
Temperature - Notes and Optional Assignment (due Wed., Oct. 21)
Wed., Oct. 14 - Quiz #2
(Two songs "Festival"
& "Godan daginn" from Sigur Ros, also some pictures
of
my
cats)
Mon., Oct. 12 - Filtering effect of the
atmosphere on light, atmospheric greenhouse effect
Fri., Oct. 09 - Wavelength, frequency &
energy; EM spectrum, Stefan-Boltzmann & Wien's Law, radiative
equilibrium
Wed., Oct. 07 - Wind chill, Buddhist monks,
energy transport by latent heat,
static electricity & electric
fields, EM radiation
Mon., Oct. 05 - Temperature & heat,
energy
transport by conduction & convection
Fri., Oct. 02 - Energy and Energy Transport, Energy
temperature
relationship,
specific
heat,
Bertrand Piccard
Introduction - Energy and Energy
Transport
Upper Level Charts -
Supplementary reading
Wed., Sep. 30 - Upper level charts, effects of
upper level convergence and divergence on surface pressure,
Auguste Piccard
Mon., Sep. 28 - Weather
changes
accompanying
cold & warm fronts
Fri., Sep. 25 - Surface
maps,
winds blowing around high and low pressure centers,
pressure gradient and wind speed,
warm and cold fronts
Wed., Sep. 23 - Quiz #1 (Israel
Kamakawewo'ole sang "Mona Lisa",
"In this Life"
and
Mon., Sep. 21 - Station model notation
pt. 2, surface weather maps pt. 1, fall equinox
Fri., Sep. 18 - Troposphere &
stratosphere, station model notation pt. 1
Wed., Sep. 16 - Ideal gas law, Charles
Law, vertical forces on air parcels, Archimedes Law
Mon., Sep. 14 - Rate of pressure change
with altitude, mercury barometer, density changes with altitude,
upward pressure
difference force
Fri., Sep. 11 - Mass, weight, density,
pressure
Wed., Sep. 09 - Climate change pt. 2,
Practice Quiz
Fri., Sep. 04 - Carbon dioxide and
climate change pt. 1
Wed., Sep. 02 - Tropospheric ozone,
photochemical (LA-type smog),
particulate matter
Mon., Aug. 31 - AQI (air quality index),
atmospheric stability, sulfur dioxide, London type smog, acid rain
Fri., Aug. 28 - Air pollutants, carbon
monoxide, scattering of light
Wed., Aug. 26 - Origin of
oxygen
and ozone in the atmosphere, stromatolites and banded iron
formation, greenhouse
gases
and air pollutants.
Mon., Aug. 24 - First day of class,
composition of the atmosphere