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