Lecture Notes
Wed., May 7 - Final Exam Review pt 1
Mon., May 5 - Course evaluation,
information about the final exam
Fri., May 2 -
Wed., Apr. 30 - Quiz #4
Mon., Apr. 28 - Global scale pressure
pattern and winds (condensed version)
Fri., Apr. 25 - Why the wind blows the
way it does (steps 2-10)
Wed., Apr. 23 - Hurricanes pt. 2, why the
wind blows the way it does (step 1)
Mon., Apr. 21 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Fri., Apr. 18 - Lightning pt. 2 and
just barely starrted hurricanes
Wed., Apr. 16 - Tornado damage, lightning pt. 1
Mon., Apr. 14 - Air mass, severe, and
supercell thunderstorms,
microbursts, tornadoes pt. 2
Fri., Apr. 11 - Tornadoes pt. 1: distribtion,
general characteristics,
life cycle
Wed., Apr. 09 - Quiz #3
Mon., Apr. 07 - Ice crystal process pt. 2,
types of precipitation, weather radar
Fri., Apr. 04 - Precipitation formation by
collision coalescence process & ice crystal process pt.1
Wed., Apr. 02 - Thunderstorm development,
satellite photographs, precipitation producing processes
Mon., Mar. 31 - Identifying and naming the 10
main cloud types
Fri., Mar. 28 - Measuring humidity, dew and
frost, cloud condensation nuclei, cloud-in-a-bottle demonstration
Wed., Mar. 26 - Humidity example problems,
drying moist air, rain shadow effect
Water vapor saturation
Mon., Mar. 24 - Introduction to humidity
variables, controls of temperature
Controls of
Temperature
Fri., Mar. 14 - Scattering of light,
spring equinox
Wed., Mar. 12 - Quiz #2
Mon., Mar. 10 - Effects of clouds on
daytime and nighttime temperatures, global warming, causes of the
seasons
Fri., Mar. 7 - Atmospheric greenhouse
effect
Wed., Mar. 5 - Stefan Boltmann and Wien
laws, spectra of the earth and sun, radiative equilibrium,
filtering
effect of the atmosphere
Mon., Mar. 3 - Static electricity,
electric fields, electromagnetic radiation, EM spectrum, rules
governing emission of radiation
Fri., Feb. 29 - Archimedes' law, latent
heat energy transport
Wed., Feb. 27 - Ideal gas law, Charles'
law, forces that cause air to rise and sink
Mon., Feb. 25 - Energy transport:
conduction and convection
Fri., Feb. 22 - Introduction to Chap. 2, energy,
temperature, heat, specific heat, temperature scales
Wed., Feb. 20 - Quiz #1
Mon., Feb 18 - Stratospheric ozone and
the ozone hole, first non-stop voyage around the globe in a balloon
Fri., Feb. 15 - Upper level charts pt. 2
Wed., Feb. 13 - Cold fronts, upper level
charts pt. 1
Mon., Feb. 11 - Surface winds around high
&
low pressure, wind speed & pressure gradient, cold & warm fronts
Fri., Feb. 08 - Decoding station model
pressure data, isobars and isotherms
Wed., Feb. 06 - Auguste Piccard's trip into
the stratosphere by
balloon, Practice Quiz
Mon., Feb. 04 - Upward pressure force
demo. revisited, troposphere & stratosphere, surface weather maps
&
station model notation
Fri., Feb. 01 - Newton's Law of Universal
Gravitation, mercury barometers, average and extreme sea level pressure
values,
density changes with altitude,
upward pressure force demonstration
Wed., Jan. 30 - Mass, weight, pressure,
density; sea level pressure and pressure changes with altitude
Mon., Jan. 28 - CO2 and
climate change
pt. 2; mass, weight, density, and pressure
Fri., Jan. 25 - Acid rain demonstration,
CO2 and climate change
pt. 1
Wed., Jan. 23 - Air pollutants pt. 2:
tropospheric ozone, sulfur dioxide, and acid rain
Fri., Jan. 18 - Air pollutants pt. 1:
carbon monoxide. Expt. 1
Wed. Jan. 16 - 1st day of classes,
composition of the atmosphere,
dew point temperature, evolution of the atmosphere