Lecture Notes
These notes will normally
appear 12 to 24 hours after class has met.
You should always read through them
even if you were in class.
They're often put together is a hurry,
so keep an eye out for typos.
Mon., May 9 - Final Exam (music: Laura
Marling, Mumford & Sons, Dharohar Project "Meheni
Rachi" (5:02), "Devil's
Spoke" (6:24) )
Wed., May 4 - Last day of classes,
Final Exam review pt. 1
Mon., May 2 - Grade
summaries, information about the Final Exam, Final Exam Study Outline,
in-class course evaluation
Fri., Apr. 29 - Hurricanes pt.
2
Wed., Apr. 27 - Quiz #4 (music: Isabelle Boulay &
Eric Lapointe "La Boheme"
(4:08), Zaz "Sous le
Ciel de Paris" (3:16),
Vanessa Paradis & Benjamin Biolay "Le
Rempart" (3:46))
Mon., Apr. 25 - Hurricanes pt. 1
Fri., Apr. 22 - Lightning
Wed., Apr. 20 - Tornadoes
pt. 2, life cycle, enhanced Fujita scale & tornado
damage
Mon., Apr. 18 - Tornadoes
pt. 1, tornado occurrence and characteristics
Fri., Apr. 15 - Thunderstorms
pt. 2, life
cycle, gust fronts, haboobs, microbursts;
severe thunderstorms, mesocyclones and wall
clouds
Wed., Apr. 13 - Water draining from
sinks and toilets in the N. & S. hemispheres,
thunderstorms pt. 1
Mon., Apr. 11 - Why winds blow the
way they do pt. 2: circular H and L pressure centers, surface
winds
Fri., Apr. 8 - Why winds blow the way
they do pt. 1: Newton's 1st law of motion, pressure gradient
and Coriolis forces,
upper level winds in the northern & southern hemispheres
Wed., Apr. 06 - Quiz #3 (music: Don
McLean "American
Pie" (8:33), "Vincent"
(4:11) )
Mon., Apr. 04 - The ice crystal
process, types of precipitation
Fri., Apr. 01 - Processes that
produce precipitation, collision coalescence process, cold
clouds, supercooled water
Wed., Mar. 30 - Satellite photographs
Mon. & Wed., Mar. 28 & 30 -
Identifying and naming clouds
Fri., Mar. 25 - Measuring humidity,
wind chill and heat index, the drinking bird, condensation
nuclei, haze and fog, cloud in a bottle demonstration (maybe)
Saturating
the air with water vapor - Recommended reading
Wed., Mar. 23 - Humidity variable
example problems, drying moist air, the rain shadow effect
Mon., Mar. 21 - Humidity
variables
Wed., Mar. 09 - Quiz #2 (music: Andrea Bocelli &
Elisa "La
Voce del Silenzio" (5:22), Elisa "Dancing"
(5:16), "Rock
Your Soul" (5:05) )
Mon., Mar. 07 - Factors that
determine annual mean and annual range of temperature, a field
experiment in the tropical Pacific Ocean
Fri., Mar. 04
- Greenhouse effect warming, global warming
misconception, effects of clouds on daytime &
nighttime temperatures
Wed., Mar. 02 - Radiative
equilibrium, filtering effect of the
atmosphere, the atmospheric greenhouse
effect
Mon., Feb. 29 - Rules
governing the emission of EM
radiation, EM radiation emitted by
the earth and sun, color
temperature
Fri., Feb. 26 -
Electromagnetic (EM) radiation, EM spectrum
Wed., Feb. 24
- Latent heat energy transport; static electricity, electric
fields, and electromagnetic (EM) radiation
Mon., Feb. 22 - Temperature &
heat, temperature scales, energy transport by conduction &
convection, wind chill
Fri., Feb. 19 - Introduction
to energy and energy transport, specific heat,
measuring the energy needed to evaporate liquid
nitrogen (time permitting)
Wed., Feb. 17 - Quiz #1 (music: First Aid Kit "Heavy
Storm" (3:23), "Cedar
Lane" (5:09), "When I
Grow Up" (3:36),
"Winter is
All Over You" (3:40), "Emmylou"
(4:24)
Upper level charts pt.
3 - Supplementary reading
Upper level charts pt.
2 - Supplementary reading
Upper level charts pt.
1 -"Required" reading
Mon.,
Feb. 15 - 3D structure of warm fronts,
locating a warm front on a surface weather map,
brief introduction to upper-level charts
Fri., Feb. 12 - Fronts
and the weather they bring, 3-D structure of cold
fronts, locating a cold front on a surface weather
maps
Wed., Feb. 10 - Surface
weather maps, isobars &
isotherms, high & low pressure
centers, pressure gradients, warm &
cold fronts
Mon.,
Feb. 8 - The station model notation used to
plot weather data on surface weather maps
Fri., Feb. 5
- Rising & sinking air, Charles' Law, vertical forces
acting on air parcels, Archimedes principle, Galileo
thermometer
Wed., Feb. 3 - Changes
in air temperature with altitude - troposphere &
stratosphere; Auguste, Jacques, & Bertrand
Piccard; Practice Quiz
Mon.,
Feb. 1 - Air density changes with altitude, the ideal
gas law
Fri., Jan. 29 - mercury
barometer; average & extreme values of sea level
pressure; pressure decreases with increasing
altitude;
air pressure pushes downward, upward, and sideways
Wed., Jan. 27
- Mass, weight, density and pressure
Mon., Jan. 25 - Acid rain,
particulate matter
Fri., Jan. 22 - Tropospheric
ozone & photochemical (LA-type) smog; sulfur dioxide,
London-type smog
Supplementary reading - Air
Quality Index (AQI), symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning
Wed.,
Jan. 20 - Trace
gases in the atmosphere and air pollutants, carbon
monoxide, light scattering
Fri., Jan. 15 - Dew point
temperature & the summer monsoon, origin and evolution of
the earth's atmosphere
Wed., Jan. 13 - First
day of class, composition of the atmosphere and dew point
temperature