Lecture Notes
Wed., May 6 - Final exam review pt. 1
Mon., May 4 - Course evaluation and information
about the final exam
Fri., May 1 - Hurricanes pt. 2
Wed., Apr. 29 - Quiz #4 (music: Stairway to Heaven,
Led Zeppelin)
Mon., Apr. 27 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Fri., Apr. 24 - Lightning pt. 2
Wed., Apr. 22 - Tornadoes pt. 2, tornado
damage, lightning pt. 1
Mon., Apr. 20 - Tornadoes pt. 1, general
characteristics, life cycle
Fri., Apr. 17 - Thunderstorms pt. 2, severe
thunderstorms, supercell thunderstorms
Wed., Apr. 15 - Thermal circulation examples,
monsoons, thunderstorms pt. 1
Mon., Apr. 13 - Thermal circulations, 1- and
3- cell models of the earth's global circulation
Fri., Apr. 10 - Surface and upper level winds,
cause of the Coriolis force, water draining from sinks
Wed., Apr. 8 - Quiz #3 (music: Sigur Ros Festival)
Mon., Apr. 6 - Types of precipitation, weather
radar.
Fri., Apr. 3 - Cold clouds, ice crystal
process.
Wed., Apr. 1 - Satellite photos of clouds,
precipitation producing processes, collision-coalescence process
Mon., Mar. 30 - Cloud identification and
classification
Fri., Mar. 27 - Heat index, condensation
nuclei, haze and fog, radiation and steam fog, cloud in a bottle
demonstration
Wed., Mar. 25 - Rates of evaporation,
saturated air, drying moist air, rain shadow effect, measuring humidity,
dew, frozen dew and frost
Mon., Mar. 23 - Humidity example problems
Mon., Mar. 16 - Fri., Mar. 20 - Spring Break
Fri., Mar. 13! - Spring equinox, climate in
Pohnpei, FSM, tropical beverages, betelnut
Wed., Mar. 11 - Quiz #2 (music: Trace Bundy)
Mon., Mar. 9 - Causes of the seasons,
Experiment #3, controls of temperature
Fri., Mar. 06 - Greenhouse effect realistic
version, effects of clouds on day & night temperatures
Wed., Mar. 04 - CFL bulbs, radiative
equilibrium, filtering effect of the atmosphere, greenhouse effect
simple version
Mon., Mar. 02 - Energy, wavelength &
frequency, EM spectrum, rules governing the emission of EM radiation,
radiation emitted by the earth and
the sun
Fri., Feb. 27 - Latent heat energy
transport
pt. 2, static electricity, electromagnetic radiation pt. 1
Wed., Feb. 25 - Energy transport by
convection, wind chill temperature,
latent heat energy transport pt. 1
Mon., Feb. 23 - Temperature and heat,
temperature scales, energy transport by conduction
Fri., Feb. 20 - Introduction to energy and
energy transport, Energy temperature relationship, specific heat,
Jacques Piccard
Wed., Feb. 18 - Quiz #1 (music: Somewhere over the
Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole )
Mon., Feb. 16 - Weather changes
accompanying
cold & warm fronts, surface - upper level relationships in
hurricanes
Fri., Feb. 13! - Warm and cold fronts, upper
level charts, convergence & divergence at the surface and upper
levels
Wed., Feb. 11 - Surface maps, isotherms &
isobars, pressure gradient and wind speed, warm and cold fronts
Mon., Feb. 9 - Snow moon, Archimedes Law,
plotting data on surface weather maps using the station model
notation
Fri., Feb. 6 - Ideal gas law, Charles law,
forces that cause air to rise & sink
Wed., Feb. 4 - Troposphere and stratosphere,
Practice Quiz
Mon., Feb. 2 - Newton's law of gravitation,
mercury barometers, upward pressure force, density changes with altitude
Fri., Jan 30 - Mass, weight, density,
pressure, pressure units, pressure change with altitude
Wed., Jan. 28 - Carbon cycle, carbon dioxide
& climate change pt. 2
Mon., Jan. 26 - Particulate matter, acid rain
demonstration, carbon dioxide & climate change pt. 1
Fri., Jan. 23 - Sulfur dioxide & London
type smog, ozone and Los Angeles type smog, acid rain
Wed., Jan. 21 - Carbon monoxide, scattering of
light, Expt. #1
Fri., Jan. 16 - Origin of oxygen
in the atmosphere, stromatolites and banded iron, greenhouse
gases
and air pollutants
Wed.,
Jan. 14 - First day of class