Upcoming Material
Read through the notes below if you want to have a look at class
material before it is covered in
class. We may cover the material in a slightly different way or
in somewhat different order in class. Time constraints might also
keep us from covering all of the material below. Items above the
dotted line are being covered now or about to be covered, those
below the dotted line have already been covered. (please send me
an email if you find that I'm not keeping this section up to date).
1.
Origin
and
composition
of
the earth's atmosphere
2. Air pollutants pt.
1: carbon monoxide, ozone and photochemical smog
3. Air pollutants pt.
2: sulfur dioxide, acid rain, London-type smog, and particulate matter
4.
Mass, weight, density and
pressure
5. Changes in pressure,
density,
and temperature with altitude in the atmosphere
6. The ideal gas law,
vertical forces, Archimedes law
7. Station model notation
8. Surface weather
maps
9. Upper level
charts
10. Energy,
temperature,
heat
11.
Temperature
scales; energy transport by conduction, convection, and
latent heat
12.
Electromagnetic radiation pt. 1
13.
Electromagnetic radiation pt. 2
14. Radiative
equilibrium and a simplified explanation of the atmospheric greenhouse
effect
15. More
realistic energy balance and effects of clouds on daytime and nighttime
temperatures