Lecture Notes
Tue., Dec. 1 - Hurricanes
Tue., Nov. 24 - Lightning
Thu., Nov. 19 - Tornadoes
Tue., Nov. 17 - Ocean currents, SW
monsoons, thunderstorms
Thu., Nov. 12 - Thermal circulations,
1-cell & 3-cell model representations of the earth global scale
circulation
Tue., Nov. 10 - Upper level and surface
winds,
Coriolis force, water draining from sinks and toilets
Thu., Nov. 5 - Quiz #3 (before
the quiz some music from Domingo
DeGrazia: "Tres Ninas", "Red Sunrise", "August Heat;"
Tue., Nov. 3 - Precipitation producing
processes, types of precipitation
Thu., Oct. 29 - Cloud identification and
classification
Tue., Oct. 27 - Heat index, evaporation rate,
saturated air, condensation nuclei, haze & fog, radiation &
steam fog,
cloud in a bottle demonstration,
clouds and climate change
Thu., Oct. 22 - Humidity example
problems,
drying moist air, rain shadow effect, measuring humidity, dew &
frost
Tue., Oct. 20 - Effects of clouds on daytime
and nighttime temperature, global warming misconception,
controls of temperature and an
awesome field experiment, humidity variables
Thu., Oct. 15 -Quiz #2
(Two songs "Festival"
& "Godan daginn" from Sigur Ros)
Tue., Oct. 13 - EM spectrum, Stefan
Boltzmann & Wiens law, radiative equilibrium,
filtering effect of the
atmosphere, atmospheric greenhouse effect
Thu., Oct. 08 - Wind chill,
Buddhist monks,
energy transport by latent heat, static electricity & electric
fields,
electromagnetic radiation
Tue., Oct. 06 - Temperature
&
heat, energy
transport by conduction & convection
Introduction - Energy and energy
transport
Upper level charts -
Supplementary reading
Thu., Oct. 1 - Weather
changes associated with cold & warm fronts, upper level charts,
effects of
upper level convergence and divergence on surface pressure
Tue., Sep. 29 - Isotherms & isobars,
surface maps,
winds blowing around high and low pressure centers,
pressure gradient and wind speed,
warm and cold fronts
Thu. Sep. 24 - Quiz #1 (Israel
Kamakawewo'ole sang "Mona Lisa",
"In this Life"
and
Tue., Sep. 22 - Station model notation,
fall equinox
Thu., Sep. 17 - Ideal gas law, Charles
law, vertical forces acting on air, Archimedes law,
troposphere &
stratosphere
Tue., Sep. 15 - Rate of
pressure change
with altitude, mercury barometer, density changes with altitude,
upward pressure
difference force, Newton's Law of Gravitation
Thu., Sep. 10 - Mass, weight, density,
and
pressure
Tue., Sep. 08 - Carbon dioxide & climate
change pt. 2
Thu., Sep. 03 - Tropospheric ozone &
photochemical smog, particulate matter, carbon dioxide & climate
change pt. 1
Tue., Sep. 01 - Carbon monoxide pt. 2,
inversions and atmospheric stability, air quality index, sulfur
dioxide, London smog,
acid rain
Thu., Aug. 27 - Origin of
oxygen
and ozone in the atmosphere, stromatolites and banded iron
formation, greenhouse
gases
and air pollutants, scattering of
light, carbon monoxide pt. 1. Experiment #1
Tue., Aug. 25 - First day of class,
origin and composition of the atmosphere