Announcements:

Wednesday, December 15:

Final grades including the final exam are posted under the grades link. Please contact me immediately if you believe there is a mistake as I will send in the official grades sometime tomorrow. I wish you all a great winter break.

Monday, December 6:

Class grades before the final exam are posted. If you have any questions about the grades, please ask them in class tomorrow. The final exam is optional for everyone. If you do not take the final exam, you will get the letter grade shown next to your class ID. The gradesheet also tells you what you need to score on the final exam to raise your class letter grade by one letter. Please see below on this page for an explation of how the final exam score will factor into your final class grade should you decide to take it. I will discuss how to prepare for the final exam in class tomorrow. You should gather up your three in-class exams and bring them to class with you if you are considering taking the final exam. In particular if there are any questions or topics from previous exams that you do not understand, tomorrow would be a good time to ask. Otherwise, if you are satisfied with your class grade or have no interest in taking the final exam, you do not need to come to class tomorrow unless you want to pick up graded material.

Monday, November 29:

I have added some information about exam 3 under the Old Exams link.

Monday, November 29:

Grades for the term paper are posted under the Grades link. You may pick them up in class tomorrow.

Monday, November 22:

Grades for homework 4 are posted under the Grades link. You may pick them up in class tomorrow.

Friday, November 5:

Grades for exam 2 and homework 3 are posted under the Grades link. You may pick them up in class on Tuesday.

Thursday, November 4:

Just a reminder that homework 4 is posted under the homework link. It is due in class on Tuesday, November 16.

Monday, November 1:

Homework 4 is posted under the homework link. Please read over the assignment before class tomorrow. I will discuss the homework in class tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 26:

If you need to reschedule exam 2, you must send email to both me and Kerrie, your TA. I may be out of email contact from time to time this week.

Monday, October 25:

I have put some information relevant for exam 2 under the Old Exams link. After class tomorrow I will post the solutions for homework #3, so no late homeworks will be accepted after class tomorrow.

Monday, October 11:

After looking over drafts of the term paper, I am realizing that some of you do not understand the basics of carbon cap and trade. In addition some of you are not following the directions on paper content. I shouldn't have to say this, but I expect that you closely read over the material on the paper content wherein it describes how the paper should be laid out and the content that needs to be included. I plan to go over the basics of carbon cap and trade at the beginning of lecture tomorrow. The due date for the term paper has been moved back to Tuesday, October 19.

Monday, October 4:

Grades for homework #2 are posted under the grades link. Homework #3 is posted under the homework link. It is due October 21.

Wednesday, September 29:

Kerrie, the class TA, has changed her office hours due to a class time change. Her new office hours are listed below.

Wednesday, September 22:

I placed solutions to homework #2 under the old exams link.

Monday, September 20:

I have added some information about this year's exam under the old exams link.

Wednesday, September 15:

A student discovered a typo on question 8 of the homework. Please see note under the homework link.

Thursday, September 9:

Exams 1 and 2 from Fall 2009 are posted under the old exams link.

Wednesday, September 8:

Homework 2 is posted under the homework link. It is due in class on Tuesday, September 21.

Wednesday, September 8:

Grades for homework 1 are posted under grades link. Make sure that you can find your requested class ID. If you are unsure of your class ID, please send me an email and I can verify it for you. Note that there are 13 students registered for the class who did not submit homework 1. You should do this ASAP. In addition, there are 2 students who have submitted homework 1 but are no longer registered for the class. These class IDs are highlighted in red. If you are one of those students, please let me know if you still want to be in the class ASAP before I drop you from my records.

Tuesday, September 7:

Office hours for the instructor and teaching assistant are now posted below. If you cannot make posted office hours, you may set up an appointment via email.

Tuesday, August 24:

Welcome to Atmospheric Sciences 336. Please periodically check this area for class announcements.

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/fall10/atmo336/home.html

Course Hours/Location:

Tuesday, Thursday   9:30 - 10:45  
Education Building (EDUC), Room 211.

Instructor:

Dr. Dale Ward, Lecturer / 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: Tuesdays 11 - 12 (after class), Thursdays 1:15 - 2:15, or by appointment.
Phone: 626-7261 (usually NOT a good way to contact me)

Teaching Assistant:

Kerrie Geil
Email: kgeil@email.arizona.edu
Office: Physics and Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 526
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 - 2, or by appointment.

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:

Homework assignments will be given periodically during the semester. These will consist of short written papers and brief problem sets. The sum total of all homework accounts for 20% of your final grade. Individual homework assignments may not be weighted equally in determining your overall class homework grade. Expect about four homeworks to be assigned during the semester (not including the simple homework #1, which is due after the first week of class).

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 (see University of Arizona Code of Academic Integrity).

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

Term Paper:

A term paper on the subject of the United States adopting a carbon cap and trade policy will be required for each student. Information about the paper is available under the homework link . I will discuss the term paper in class on Tuesday, August 30. Please read over the assignment sometime before coming to class on August 30.

The term paper will account for 20% of your final class grade. It is due on October 14, which is approximately the midway point in the semester. I strongly suggest that you begin to work on your paper long before the due date. The paper accounts for a significant portion of your final grade.

Exams:

There will be 3 in-class exams and a final exam. Exam grades account for 60% of your final grade. Each in-class exam will account for 20% of your final grade. The exams will consist of a mixture of multiple choice and short answer questions. The in-class exams are not comprehensive in that the questions concentrate on material covered since the last exam. However, it is expected that you are familiar with some of the basic concepts covered early in the semester.

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

Final exam is Tuesday, December 14 from 8:00 - 10:00 in the regular classroom, EDUC 211.

Exam Policy:

You are expected to study and understand material covered in class during lecture as well as to read the relevant material from the class notes. Exam questions will be taken from both the in-class lectures and the reading material included in the class web pages.

Please contact the instructor (preferrably via e-mail) as soon as possible if for an unexpected reason you are unable to be in class for an exam. 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%).