Lecture Notes
These notes will normally
appear 12 to 24 hours after class has met.
You should always read through them even if you were in
class. They're often put together is a
hurry,
so keep an eye out for typos.
Tue., Dec. 10 - Last day of
classes
Thu., Dec. 5 - Quiz #4 (Laura Marling "Undine",
"Blackberry
Stone", "The
Captain and the Hourglass", "The Muse")
Tue., Dec. 3 - Lightning safety,
hurricanes
Thu., Nov. 28 - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tue., Nov. 26 - Lightning
Thu., Nov. 21 - Tornadoes pt. 2
Tue., Nov. 19 - Thunderstorms pt. 2,
tornadoes pt. 1
Thu., Nov. 14 - Surface winds, water
draining from sinks & toilets, thunderstorms pt. 1
Tue., Nov. 12 - Pressure gradient and
Coriolis forces, upper level and surface winds in the northern
& southern hemispheres
Thu., Nov. 7 - Quiz #3
Tue., Nov. 5 - Collision coalescence and ice
crystal
precipitation
processes,
types of
precipitation
Thu.,
Oct. 31 -
Condensation
nuclei, cloud
in a bottle,
identifying
and naming
clouds
Tue.,
Oct. 29 -
Humidity
example
problems,
drying moist
air, measuring
humidity, heat
index,
condensation
phenomena,
cloud-in-a-bottle
Thu.,
Oct. 24 -
Greenhouse
effect pt. 2,
effects of
clouds on day-
and night-time
temperatures,
global warming
misconception,
introduction
to humidity
variables
Controls
of Temperature
(Climate)
-
Supplementary
reading with a
link to an
Optional
Assignment
Tue.,
Oct. 22 -
Radiative
equilibrium,
filtering
effect of the
atmosphere on
light,
atmospheric
greenhouse
effect pt. 1
Thu., Oct. 17
- Quiz #2
(music: Andrea
Bocelli, Laura
Pausini "Dare
To Live",
Andrea
Bocelli, Elisa
"La
Voce del
Silenzio",
Elisa "Dancing")
Tue., Oct. 15 -
Electromagnetic radiation
Thu., Oct. 10 -
Energy transport by conduction,
convection, and latent heat. Static
electricity and electric fields ?
Thu.,
Oct. 10 - Just the pictures, hardly
any words
Tue., Oct. 8 - Introduction
to energy and energy transport, energy
and temperature, temperature scales,
specific heat & latent heat
Tue., Oct. 8
- Just the pictures, very few words
Upper-level
charts pt. 3 - Optional reading
Upper-level
charts pt. 2 - Optional reading
Upper-level
charts pt. 1 - Suggested reading
Thu., Oct. 3 -
Weather changes associated with cold and
warm fronts, upper level charts
Thu.,
Oct. 3 - Just the pictures, almost
no words
Tue., Oct. 1 -
Surface weather maps, fronts
Tue., Oct. 1
- Just the pictures, no words
Thu., Sep. 26 - Quiz #1 (music:
Sigur Ros "Von"
(5:13), "Festival"
(9:26), "Gooan
Daginn" (5:13), The XX "Infinity"
(5:16)
Tue., Sep. 24 - Surface
weather maps, station model notation,
isobars and isotherms
Thu., Sep. 19 - Ideal
gas law, Charles' law, vertical forces
acting on air parcels, Archimedes
principle
Tue., Sep. 17 - Upward
pressure force, air density changes with altitude,
troposphere & stratosphere, exploring the
atmosphere by balloon,
ideal gas law introduction
Thu., Sep. 12 - Upward air
pressure force, mercury barometers, Practice Quiz
Tue., Sep. 10 - Mass, weight,
density and pressure
Thu., Sep. 5 - Sulfur dioxide,
London-type smog, acid rain, particulate matter
Tue., Sep. 3 - Air pollution,
carbon monoxide, tropospheric ozone and photochemical
smog, scattering of light
Thu., Aug. 29 - Origin
& evolution of the earth's atmosphere, stromatolites
and banded iron formation
Tue., Aug. 27 - First day of
class, course information, composition of the atmosphere