Lecture Notes
Apr 30 - Hurricanes pt. 2
Apr 27 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Apr 25 - Quiz #4
Apr 23 - Lightning
Apr 20 - Tornadoes pt. 2
Apr 18 - Thunderstorms, microbursts, tornadoes
pt. 1
Apr 16 - Thunderstorm development, life cycle
Apr 13 - 1- and 3-cell models of global scale
circulation
Apr 11 - Draining water, surface winds,
thermal circulations
Apr 09 - Upper level winds
Apr 06 - Newton's laws of motion, forces that
cause winds, pressure gradient and Coriolis force
Apr 04 - Quiz #3
Apr 02 - Ice crystal process, types of
precipitation, radar
Mar 30 - Collision coalescence process, cold
clouds, ice crystal process
Mar 28 - Satellite photographs, rainbow
features, precipitation processes
Mar 26 - Cloud identification and
classification
Mar 23 - Hygroscopic nuclei, cloud in a
bottle, clouds and climate change, refraction of light
Mar 21 - Cooling & drying moist air, rain
shadow effect, measuring humidity, dew & frost, condensation nuclei
Mar 19 - Humidity example problems
Introduction to Humidity
Variables
Mar 09 -
Scattering of light,
blue sky, white clouds, crepuscular rays
Mar 07 - Quiz #2
Mar 05 - Winter solstice, Pohnpei island
Mar 02 - Causes of the seasons,
equinoxes, summer solstice
Feb 28 - Effects of clouds, global
warming misconception, causes of the seasons, solar irradiance experiment
Feb 26 - Filtering effect of the
atmosphere, greenhouse effect, energy balance, in class optional
assignment
Feb 23 - Radiation rules demonstration,
EM radiation emitted by the earth & sun, radiative equilibrium
Feb 21 - Electromagnetic radiation,
electromagnetic spectrum, rules governing emission of EM radiation
Controls of
temperature (climate)
Feb 19 - Convection, latent heat energy
transport, static electricity and electric fields
Feb 16 - Oceans moderate climate,
temperature and temperature
scales, energy transport by conduction & convection
Feb 14 - Quiz #1
Feb 12 - Chapter 2 introduction, energy and
temperature, measurement of the latent heat
of vaporization of liquid nitrogen
Feb 09 - Upper level charts concluded,
interactions between upper level and surface features, cold front video
Feb 07 - Other types of fronts, upper
level charts
Feb 05 - Surface high & low pressure
centers, pressure gradient & winds, warm & cold fronts
Feb 02 - Charles' law, forces on a parcel
of air, isotherms and isobars on surface weather maps
Jan 31 - Ideal gas law, Practice Quiz
Jan 29 - Station model notation, surface
weather maps, isotherms & isobars, high and low pressure centers
Jan 26 - Air density changes with
altitude, Auguste
Piccard, forces on balloons
Jan 24 - Rate of pressure decrease with
altitude, mercury barometer, upward pressure force demonstration
Jan 22 - Mass, weight, density, pressure;
atmospheric pressure at sea level; pressure changes with altitude
Sulfur dioxide - The world's first air
pollutant
Carbon monoxide - Don't confuse this pollutant
with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas
Jan 19 - CFCs and ozone destruction, ozone
hole, tropospheric ozone and
photochemical smog
Jan 17 - Troposphere & Stratosphere,
stratospheric ozone, Experiment #1
Jan 12 - Greenhouse gases, CO2,
global warming
Jan 10 - First day of class, class
information, composition of the atmosphere