Lecture Notes
Thu., May 01 - Quiz #4
Tue., Apr. 29 - Why the wind blows the
way it does pt. 2, global scale pressure and winds (condensed version)
Thu., Apr. 24 - Hurricanes pt. 2, why the
wind blows the way it
does pt. 1
Tue., Apr. 22 - Lightning pt. 2,
hurricanes pt. 1
Thu., Apr. 17 - Severe and supercell
thunderstorms, tornado
damage, lightning pt. 1
Tue., Apr. 15 - Tornadoes
pt. 1:
distribution,
general characteristics,
life cycle. Air mass thunderstorms
and microbursts
Thu., Apr. 10 - Quiz #3
Tue., Apr. 08 - Ice crystal process pt.
2, types of precipitation, weather radar
Thu., Apr. 03 - Satellite photographs,
precipitation producing processes, collision-coalescence process, cold
clouds,
ice crystal process pt. 1
Tue., Apr. 01 - Cloud identification and
classification, thunderstorm development
Thu., Mar. 27 - drying moist air,
rainshadow effect, dew & frost, condensation nuclei,
cloud-in-a-bottle demonstration
Water vapor
saturation
Tue., Mar. 25 - Humidity introduction,
controls of temperature, humidity problem examples, spring equinox
Controls of
Temperature
Thu., Mar. 13 - Quiz #2
Tue., Mar. 11 - Global warming, causes of
the seasons, scattering of light
Thu., Mar. 06 - Radiative equilibrium,
filtering effect of the atmosphere, greenhouse effect, Archimedes Law,
effects of clouds on daytime and
nighttime temperatures
Tue., Mar. 04 - Static electricity and
electric fields, electromagnetic radiation, EM spectrum, rules
governing
emission of EM radiation
Thu., Feb. 28 - Ideal gas law, Charles'
law, vertical forces acting on air parcels, latent heat energy transport
Tue., Feb. 26 - Introduction to Chap. 2, energy,
temperature, heat, specific heat, & temperature scales
Energy transport:
conduction and convection
Thu., Feb. 21 - Quiz #1
Tue., Feb. 19 - Upper level charts pt. 2,
stratospheric ozone and the ozone hole
Thu., Feb. 14 - Cold fronts, upper level
charts pt. 1
Tue., Feb. 12 - Isotherms & isobars, winds
around high &
low pressure, wind speed & pressure gradient,
cold & warm fronts
Thu., Feb. 7 - Decoding station model
pressure data, Greenwich Mean Time, Piccard's trip to the stratosphere
by balloon
Tue., Feb. 5 - Air density changes with
altitude, upward pressure force
demo. revisited, troposphere & stratosphere,
surface weather maps
& station model notation
Thu., Jan. 31 - Pressure change with
altitude, mercury barometer, typical &
extreme sea level pressure values,
upward pressure
force demonstration
Tue., Jan. 29 - CO2 and
climate change
pt. 2; mass, weight, density, and pressure
Thu., Jan. 24 - Air pollutants pt. 2:
sulfur dioxide and acid rain. Carbon dioxide and climate change
pt. 1
Tue., Jan. 22 - Air
pollutants pt. 1:
carbon monoxide, tropospheric ozone & photochemical smog, Expt. 1
Thu., Jan. 17 - 1st day of classes,
composition of the atmosphere,
dew point temperature, evolution of the atmosphere