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.
Nov. 20
- Microbursts and severe storms, tornadoes
Nov. 18 - Surface winds in the
northern & southern hemisphere, water draining from
sinks & toilets, thunderstorms
Cause of
the Coriolis force - optional reading
Nov. 13 - Newton's
1st law of
motion,
pressure
gradient and
Coriolis
forces, upper
level and
surface winds
in the
northern &
southern
hemispheres
Nov.
11 - Veteran's Day Holiday
Nov. 6 - Quiz #3 (music: Carla
Morrison (feat. Nina Diaz, Teri Gender Bender) "Dejenme
Llorar", "Hasta
La Piel", Dum Dum Girls "Under
These Hands"
Nov. 4 - Collision
coalescence
and ice
crystal
precipitation
processes,
types of
precipitation
Satellite
photographs of clouds - Optional reading though
probably to be a future 1S1P topic
Condensation
nuclei and cloud droplet formation - Optional
reading
Oct. 30 - Condensation nuclei,
cloud-in-a-bottle, identifying and name clouds
Oct. 28 - Humidity
problems, drying moist air, rainshadow effect, measuring
humidity, heat index, the drinking bird, condensation
nuclei?
Saturating the air with
water vapor - suggested reading
Oct. 23 - Effects of clouds on
day & night temperatures, global warming
misconception, introduction to humidity variables
Oct. 21 - Light emitted by the
earth & sun, radiative equilibrium, filtering effect of
the atmosphere, the atmospheric greenhouse effect
Oct. 16 - Quiz #2 (music: George
Gershwin "Rhapsody
in Blue" )
Oct.
14 - Electromagnetic radiation, rules governing the
emission of EM radiation, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs)
and color temperature
Oct. 09 - Energy transport by
conduction, convection, and latent heat
Oct. 07 - Upper
level charts (brief mention), introduction to energy
and energy transport, measuring the energy needed to
evaporate liquid nitrogen
Upper
Level Charts pt. 3 - recommended reading
Upper Level Charts
pt. 2 - suggested reading
Upper Level
Charts pt. 1 - required reading
Oct. 02 - Weather changes caused by
warm and cold fronts, locating fronts on a surface weather map
Sep. 30 - Surface weather maps:
isobars & isotherms, pressure gradient & wind, fronts
Sep. 25 - Quiz
#1 (music: Andrea
Bocelli, Laura Pausini "Dare
To Live", Andrea
Bocelli, Elisa "La
Voce del Silenzio",
Elisa "Dancing")
Sep. 23 - Surface weather maps and the
station model notation
Sep. 18 - Ideal
gas law, Charles' law, vertical forces acting on
air parcels, Archimedes principle
Sep.
16 - Air density changes with altitude; principle of the
mercury barometer; troposphere & stratosphere;
August, Jacques & Bertrand Piccard;
Felix
Baumgartner & the Red Bull Stratos Space Dive
Sep. 11 - Rate of pressure decrease
with altitude; air pressure pushes upward, downward, &
sideways, Practice Quiz
Sep. 09 - Mass, weight, density, and
pressure
Sep. 04 - Air quality index, carbon
monoxide poisoning, sulfur dioxide & London-type smog,
acid rain, particulate matter
Sep. 02 - Air pollutants, carbon
monoxide, ozone and photochemical smog, scattering of light
Aug. 28 - Origin
& evolution of the earth's atmosphere; oxygen
and ozone;
photosynthesis, stromatolites and banded iron
formation; trace gases and pollutants
Aug. 26 - First day of class,
composition of the atmosphere, dew point temperature