Tue., Dec. 6 - Hurricanes
Thu., Dec. 1 - Quiz #4(music: "Attaboy" and
"Hill Justice" from The Goat
Rodeo Sessions)
Tue., Nov. 29 - Lightning
Thu., Nov. 24 - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tue., Nov. 22 - Tornadoes pt. 2
Thu., Nov. 17
- Ocean currents, SW monsoon, severe thunderstorms, tornadoes pt. 1
Tue., Nov. 15
- Thunderstorms, gust fronts, microbursts, wind shear, severe storms
Thu., Nov. 10
- Cause of the Coriolis force, thermal circulations, 1- and 3-cell
models of the earth's global scale circulation pattern
Tue., Nov. 8
- Forces that cause surface and
upper level winds, surface and upper level winds
in the
northern &
southern hemispheres
Thu., Nov. 3 - Quiz #3
Tue., Nov. 1 - Collision coalescence and ice
crystal processes, types of precipitation
Thu., Oct. 27 - Identifying and naming clouds
pt. 2, satellite photographs, precipitation producing processes
Tue., Oct. 25 - Condensation nuclei, haze
& fog, cloud-in-a-bottle demonstration, identifying and naming
clouds pt. 1
Thu., Oct. 20 - Evaporation, condensation
& saturation, humidity problems concl'd, drying moist air,
rain shadow effect, measuring
humidity, dew frost and frozen dew
Controls of
temperature
- required and optional reading
Tue., Oct. 18 - Controls of temperature,
humidity variables, humidity example problems
Thu., Oct. 13 - Quiz #2 (music:
"Nocturne", "Irna", "Jeux d'Enfants"
from Cirque du Soleil's Alegria)
Tue., Oct. 11 - Radiative equilibrium,
filtering effect of the atmosphere, atmospheric greenhouse effect,
effects of clouds
on daytime and nighttime
temperatures, global warming misconception
Thu., Oct. 6 - Electromagnetic radiation,
rules governing the emission of EM radiation
Tue., Oct. 4 - Conduction, convection, and
latent
heat energy transport
Thu., Sep. 29 - Introduction to
energy
and energy transport, specific heat & latent heat, temperature
Tue., Sep. 27 - Air masses, cold &
warm
fronts, weather changes caused by fronts, locating fronts on weather
maps,
Fall Equinox
Thu., Sep. 22 - Quiz #1 (music:
Sigur
Ros:
"Fljotavik",
"Godan daginn",
and
"Med sud i
eyrum")
Tue., Sep. 20 - Coding pressure on
surface
weather maps, Surface weather maps pt.
1, isotherms & isobars,
winds blowing around H & L,
pressure
gradientArchimedes Law
Thu., Sep. 15 - Ideal gas law, Charles
law,
vertical forces acting on air, station model notation
Tue., Sep. 13 - Upward air pressure force,
mercury barometers, troposphere & stratosphere
Thu., Sep. 8 - Changing pressure and density
with altitude, Practice Quiz
Tue., Sep. 6 - Tropospheric ozone;
photochemical (Los Angeles
type) smog; mass, weight, density & pressure pt. 1
Thu., Sep. 1 - Acid rain, particulate
matter,
visibility
Tue., Aug. 30 - Air pollution introduction,
carbon monoxide, scattering
of light, sulfur dioxide
Thu., Aug. 25 - Summer monsoon, origin
& evolution of the atmosphere, stromatolites &
banded iron
formation
Tue., Aug. 23
- First day of class,
composition of the atmosphere