Week

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Jan. 10 - Jan .14

First day of class

Jan. 17 - Jan. 21

MLK Holiday

NO CLASS

Regional Climate Downscaling workshop

NO CLASS

Motivational topics: Numerical Weather Prediction

Ozone Hole

Last day to free add class (Thursday)

Jan .24 - Jan. 29

Motivational topics: Climate Change

Atmosphere-ocean interactions

AMS Meeting

NO CLASS

AMS Meeting

NO CLASS

Jan. 31 - Feb. 4

Chemical composition of the atmosphere

SI Units of measurement

Lecture 3

Lecture 3 supplements

Hydrostatic equation and vertical structure of the atmosphere

Lecture 4

Lecture 4 supplements

Introduction to atmospheric thermodynamics

Ideal gas law

Lecture 5

Lecture 5 supplements

Feb. 7 - Feb. 11

Geopotential height and thickness

Lecture 6

Last day to free drop course (Tuesday)

Introduction to first law of thermodynamics as applied to the dry atmosphere

Lecture 7

Dry adiabatic lapse rate

Skew-T, ln-p thermodynamic diagram

Quantifying atmospheric moisture

Cloud in a bottle experiment

Sling psychrometer

Lecture 8

Skew-T, ln-p diagram file (.pdf)

Make-up class

3-4p PAS 304

Feb. 14 - Feb. 18

Lifting condensation level

Latent heating and cooling

Lecture 9

Consideration of latent heating in the first law and equivalent potential temperature

Chinook winds

Lecture 10

Static stability

Conditional instability

Carnot cycle and 2nd   law of thermodynamics

Clausius Clapeyron equation

Lecture 11

Make-up class

2-3p PAS 304

Feb. 21 - Feb. 25

Clausius Clapeyron equation (continued)

Introduction to atmospheric radiation

Lecture 12

Radiance and Irradiance

The solid angle

Lecture 13

Homework #1 Due

Planck Function and Blackbody emission

Greenhouse effect

Lecture 14

Skew T, log p manual  from UW

Make-up class

2-3p PAS 304

Feb. 28 - Mar. 4

Scattering and absorption of radiation

Lecture 15

Radiation absorption

Beer’s law and optical depth

Lecture 16

Radiative heating and Schwartzchild’s equation

Lecture 17

Mar. 7 - Mar. 11

Midterm #1 Review

Midterm 1 Review Sheet

MIDTERM #1

Last day to drop course with “W” grade

PAIGH Meeting

NO CLASS

Mar. 14 - Mar. 18

Spring Break

NO CLASS

Spring Break

NO CLASS

Spring Break

NO CLASS

Mar. 21 - Mar. 25

Return Midterm #1

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry

Lecture 18

Photochemical Smog

Lecture 19

Stratospheric ozone and the ozone hole

Atmospheric aerosols

Lecture 20

Make-up class

2-3p PAS 304

Mar. 28 - Apr. 1

Introduction to Cloud Physics

Gibbs free energy

Homogeneous nucleation

Lecture 21

Cloud condensation nuclei

Heterogeneous nucleation

Köhler curves

Lecture 22

Condensation

Collision and coalescence

Lecture 23

Apr. 4 - Apr. 8

Cold cloud processes

See previous lecture notes

Acid rain

Introduction to dynamics

Kinematic properties of synoptic-scale flows

Lecture 25

Pressure gradient force

Coriolis force

Geostrophic balance

Lecture 26

Coriolis force on a merry-go-round (movie)

Make-up class

2-3p PAS 304

Apr. 11 - Apr. 15

Centrifugal force

Gradient balance

Cyclostrophic balance

Lecture 27

Effect of friction

Thermal wind and baroclinicity

Lecture 28

Midterm #2 Review

Midterm 2 Review Sheet

Apr. 18 - Apr. 22

TRACE Meeting

NO CLASS

MIDTERM #2

The General Circulation

Lecture 29

Apr. 25 - Apr. 29

Fronts

Lecture 30

Tucson Frontal Passage Movie

Mid-latitude cyclone life cycle

Air mass thunderstorms

Lecture 31

Organized convection

Supercells and tornadoes

Lecture 32

Monsoon convection on Catalinas Movie

May 2 -  May 6

Return Midterm #2

Course evaluations

Hurricanes

Final exam review sheet

Lecture 33

Hurricane eyewall flight movie

Storm surge movie

Final exam review sheet

Last day of classes

May 9 -  May 13

FINAL EXAM

Tuesday May 10

1 pm - 3pm