Thu., Dec. 14 - Final Exam (music: First Aid Kit "Fireworks" (4:14), "It's a Shame" (4:06), "Waterloo Sunset (Kinks cover)" (4:20),
                                                           "Wolf" (6:02), "Winter is all Over You" (4:49)

Tue., Dec. 5 - Hurricanes, last day of class

Thu., Nov. 30 - Quiz #4 ( music: Calexico Live at Ancienne Belgique )
Tue., Nov. 28 - Lightning
Thu., Nov. 23 - Thanksgiving
Tue., Nov. 21 - Tornadoes, occurrence, characteristics, life cycle, Fujita and enhanced Fujita scales
Thu., Nov. 16 - Thunderstorms, life cycle, gust fronts, microbursts, severe storms, mesocyclone & wall cloud, hook echo on radar
Water draining from sinks & toilets in the northern & southern hemispheres - Optional reading
Cause of the Coriolis Force - Optional reading
Tue., Nov. 14 - Why upper level and surface winds blow the way they do

Thu., Nov. 9 - Quiz #3 (music:  Neko Case "Hold On" (2:47), Suzanne Vega "Luka" (3:59), "I Never Wear White" (3:22), Laura Marling "Blackberry Stone"
                                      (3:31), Patty Griffin "When It Don't Come Easy" (4:50), "Heavenly Day" (3:51))
Tue., Nov. 7 - Ice crystal process cont'd, types of precipitation; upper level charts, surface & upper level winds in the northern & southern hemisphere
Thu., Nov. 2 - Precipitation formation in clouds: collision-coalescence process and the ice-crystal process
Tue., Oct. 31 - Identifying and naming clouds
Thu., Oct. 26 - measuring humidity, wind chill & heat index, the drinking bird, condensation nuclei, haze & fog, cloud in a bottle demonstration
Tue., Oct. 24 - Humidity example problems, drying moist air, the rainshadow effect

Thu., Oct. 19 - Quiz #2 (music: Radiohead "Little By Little" (4:44), "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (5:36), "Where I End and You Begin" (4:22),
                                        "Creep" (4;15), "Reckoner" (5:13) )
Tue., Oct. 17 - Final look at energy balance on the earth, global warming misconception, effects of clouds on daytime and nighttime temperatures.
                        Introduction to humidity variables (humidity variables will not be on Quiz #2)
Thu., Oct. 12 - Radiative equilibrium (energy balance), filtering effect of the atmosphere, greenhouse effect
Tue., Oct. 10 - Electromagnetic spectrum; rules governing the emission of EM radiation; EM radiation emitted by the earth, sun,
                        tungsten & compact fluorescent bulbs
Thu., Oct. 5 - Wind chill temperature, latent heat energy transport, electromagnetic radiation
Tue., Oct. 3 - Types of energy, temperature & temperature scales, specific heat & water's moderating effect on climate,
                      energy transport by conduction and convection, wind chill effect
Supplementary reading - Introduction to types of energy, energy transport processes, energy balance

Thu., Sep. 28 - Quiz #1 (Buena Vista Social Club "La Negra Tomasa" [8:29], Preservation Hall Jazz Band "El Manicero" [9:03] )
Tue., Sep. 26 - Three-dimensional structure of fronts and the weather changes they produce, locating fronts on a surface weather map
Thu., Sep. 21 - Surface weather maps pt. 2 - isobars & isotherms,  high & low pressure centers and the winds that blow around them,
                         pressure gradients, warm & cold fronts
Tue., Sep. 19 - Surface weather maps pt. 1 - the station model notation
Thu., Sep. 14 - Changes in air temperature with altitude - troposphere & stratosphere; Auguste, Jacques, & Bertrand Piccard; Practice Quiz
Archimedes Principle - Another way of understanding when/why things float or sink
Tue., Sep. 12 - Rising and sinking air, the ideal gas law, Charles' Law, vertical forces acting on air parcels
Thu., Sep. 07 - The mercury barometer, typical and extreme sea level pressures, upward force of air pressure, changes in air density with altitude
Tue. Sep. 05 - Mass, weight, density and pressure
Thu., Aug. 31 - Tropospheric ozone & Los Angeles type smog, particulate matter, smoke in Tucson (added Fri., Sep. 01)
Sulfur dioxide and acid rain
Supplementary reading - The Air Quality Index (AQI) and symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning
Tue., Aug. 29 - Air pollutants, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide, London-type smog, light scattering
Thu., Aug. 24 - Dew point temperature (pt. 2), trace gases and pollutants, origin and evolution of the earth's atmosphere
Tue., Aug. 22 -  First day of class, composition of the atmosphere and dew point temperature (pt. 1)