Lecture Notes
(You should always read through these notes because they contain pretty nearly everything covered in class together with any important announcements.  These notes will normally appear 12 to 24 hours after class has met)


Wed., Dec. 7 - Final Exam review Pt. 1
Mon., Dec. 5 - Course evalution, final exam information
Fri., Dec. 2 - Hurricanes

Wed., Nov. 30 - Quiz #4(music: "Attaboy" and "Hill Justice" from The Goat Rodeo Sessions)
Mon., Nov. 28 - Lightning
Fri., Nov. 25 - Thanksgiving Holiday
Wed., Nov. 23 - Class cancelled
Mon., Nov. 21 - Tornadoes pt. 2
Fri., Nov. 18 - Thunderstorms pt. 2, tornadoes pt. 1
Wed., Nov. 16 - Ocean currents, SW monsoon, thunderstorms pt. 1
Mon., Nov. 14 - Thermal circulations, 1- and 3-cell models of the earth's global scale pressure and wind patterns.
Fri., Nov. 11 - Veteran's Day Holiday
Wed., Nov. 9 - Cause of the Coriolis force, surface winds, water draining from sinks and toilets
Mon., Nov. 7 - Forces that cause surface and upper level winds, s
urface and upper level winds in the northern & southern hemispheres

Fri., Nov. 4 - Climate change pt. 2
Wed., Nov. 2 - Quiz #3
Mon., Oct. 31 - Climate change pt. 1
Fri., Oct. 28 - Cold clouds, precipitation producing processes pt. 2: ice crystal process, types of precipitation
Wed., Oct. 26 - Satellite photographs, precipitation-producing processes pt. 1: collision-coalescence process
Mon., Oct. 24 - Naming and identifying clouds
Fri., Oct. 21 - Condensation nuclei, fog & haze, cloud in a bottle demonstration
Wed., Oct. 19 - Drying moist air, rain shadow effect, measuring humidity, dew frost and frozen dew
Mon., Oct. 17 - Saturation of air, humidity problem examples
Controls of temperature - required and optional reading
Fri., Oct. 14 - Controls of temperature, humidity variables

Wed., Oct. 12 - Quiz #2 (music: "Nocturne" and "Irna" from Cirque du Soleil's Alegria)
Mon., Oct. 10 - Energy balance on the earth, effects of clouds on daytime and nighttime temperatures,
global warming misconception
Fri., Oct. 7 - CFL bulbs, Radiative equilibrium, filtering effect of the atmosphere, atmospheric greenhouse effect
Wed., Oct. 5 - Wavelength & frequency, EM spectrum, rules governing emission of EM radiation
Mon., Oct. 3 - Latent heat energy transport, static electricity, electric fields and electromagnetic radiation
Fri., Sep. 30 - Heat & temperature, temperature scales, energy transport by conduction & convection
Wed., Sep. 28 - Introduction to energy and energy transport, specific heat & latent heat
Upper-level charts pt. 3 - supplementary reading
Upper-level charts pt. 2 - supplementary reading

Upper-level charts pt. 1 - required reading
Mon., Sep. 26 - Manhattanhenge, weather changes assoc'd with warm & cold fronts, locating fronts, upper-level charts
Fri., Sep. 23 -
Warm and cold fronts, weather changes associated with cold fronts, Fall Equinox

Wed., Sep. 21 - Quiz #1 (music: Sigur Ros: "Fljotavik", "Godan daginn", and "Med sud i eyrum"
Mon., Sep. 19 - Surface weather maps pt. 1, isotherms & isobars, winds blowing around H & L, pressure gradient
Fri., Sep. 16 - Station model notation & surface weather maps, Archimedes law
Wed., Sep. 14 - Ideal gas law, Charles law, vertical forces acting on air
Mon., Sep. 12 - Mercury barometer, typical & extreme sea level pressures, stratosphere & troposphere
Fri., Sep. 9 - Pressure and density changes with altitude, hot air balloons, upward pressure force
Wed., Sep. 7 - Pressure cont'd, Practice Quiz

Mon., Sep. 5 - Labor Day
Fri., Sep. 2 - Tropospheric ozone; photochemical (Los Angeles type) smog; mass, weight, density & pressure pt. 1
Wed., Aug. 31 - Acid rain, particulate matter, visibility
Mon., Aug. 29 - Carbon monoxide pt. 2, scattering of light, sulfur dioxide

Fri., Aug. 26 - Thunderstorm features & haboobs, stromatolites & banded iron formation,
air pollutants introduction, carbon monoxide pt. 1
Wed., Aug. 24 - Dew point temperature, summer monsoon, origin & evolution of the atmosphere
Mon., Aug. 22 - First day of class, composition of the atmosphere