Lecture Summaries

January 2008

14	15	16 1st day of class	17	18 Lecture Outline Surface air pressure figure
21 MLK Day -- No classes	22	23 Lecture Outline	24	25 Lecture Outline Atmospheric Composition Table Air Density HW #1 Due
28 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Air Pressure Atmospheric Layers	29	30 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Atmospheric Layers 500 mb height figure(1) 500 mb height figure(2)	31

February 2008

				1 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Geostrophic Winds Annimation for Coriolis Effect
4 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Gradient Winds Figure 6.20 HW #2 Due	5	6 Quiz #1	7	8 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Figure 6.20 Figure 6.22
11 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Shortwave figure Air Mass Table US Air Mass Source Regions	12	13 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Cold front figure Warm front figure Cold front Table (8.2) Cold-type occlusion	14	15 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Cold-type occlusion Warm-type occlusion Cyclogenesis (fig. 8.23) Figure 8.28
18 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Figure 8.28 Current and Forecast Jet Stream 3-D Midlatitude Weather	19	20 Quiz #2	21	22 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Link to Ensemble Forecasts
25 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Conduction Table 2.1 Thermals HW #3 Due	26	27 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Hydrological Cycle Saturation Vapor Pressure Air Parcel	28	29 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html)

March 2008

3 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Heat Index Table	4	5 HW #4 Due Quiz #3	6	7 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html)
10 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Surface heating/free convection Orographic lifting Rising parcel	11	12 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) T'storm life cycle	13	14 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) T'storm life cycle Multi-cell thunderstorms
17 Spring Break	18	19 Spring Break	20	21 Spring Break
24 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Multi-cell thunderstorms Tilted Updrafts Figure 10.15 Supercell figures	25	26 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Current cloud-to-ground lightning Medical Aspects of Lightning strikes	27	28 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Figure 10.34 Figure 10.35 Figure 10.38 Figure 10.36 Figure 10.27 Figure 10.29 Tornado lifecycle video US all tornadoes US violent tornadoes
31 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Link to EF scale

April 2008

	1	2 HW #5 Due Quiz #4	3	4 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Easterly Wave Picture Easterly Wave Annimation African Waves Figure 11.10 Saffir-Simpson Scale
7 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Figure 11.2 Figure 11.3 Atlantic hurricane tracks (1851-2006) Errors in forecast position	8	9 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) YouTube video of Katrina from Mississippi All major landfalling Hurricanes Figure 11.25	10	11 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) All major landfalling Hurricanes Figure 11.25 EM Spectrum figure
14 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Figure 2.8 Figure 2.9	15	16 Quiz #5	17	18 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Figure 15.1 Figure 15.2 Figure 15.4 Figure 15.7 Figure 15.8 Figure 2.19
21 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Animation for summer solstice Animation for winter solstice Table 2.3	22	23 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Animation for summer solstice Animation for winter solstice Table 2.3 Figure 2.24 Figure 2.18	24	25 Lecture Outline (WORD) Lecture Outline (html) Figure 2.15 Figure 2.16 Figure 2.17
28 HW #6 Due	29	30 Quiz #6

May 2008

			1	2 No Class
5 Review for final Exam	6	7 Review for final Exam Last Day of Class	8	9 Final Exam Section 31: (11:00-1:00)
12	13	14	15	16 Final Exam Section 32: (8:00-10:00)