Reading material for Lectures

Material for Exam #1
August 28	Introduction to 500 mb Height Maps Winds at the 500 mb Height Level; Southwest Monsoon Season
September 2	Discuss Term Paper Winds; Pressure and Winds on Common Weather Maps
September 4	Winds; Pressure and Winds on Common Weather Maps (Last Section of Page) Hurricane Introduction and Characteristics Hurricane Movement and Damages
September 9	Hurricane Movement and Damages(Continued) Hurricane Cycles in the Atlantic, Links to Climate Change, Hurricane Damage and Death Trends
September 11	Hurricane Cycles in the Atlantic, Links to Climate Change, Hurricane Damage and Death Trends(Continued) The atmosphere Some properties of gases Composition of the Atmosphere
September 16	Vertical Structure of Temperature, Density, and Pressure Human response to air pressure and density changes The Skew-T Diagram In-class text notes (WORD document)
September 18	Water in the atmosphere A closer look at evaporation and condensation In-class text notes (WORD document) End of Exam 1 Material
Material for Exam #2
September 30	Relative humidity and Dew Point Relative Humidity and Dew Point Notes (WORD document) Energy Transfer
October 2	Temperature, humidity, wind, and human comfort Clouds Why Does Rising Air Cool? Conditions under which air is forced to rise Precipitation
October 7	Moving air parcels up and down through the atmosphere Stability of the atmosphere Introduction to Thunderstorms
October 9	Thunderstorm Lifecycle and Severe Thunderstorms Tornadoes
October 14	Tornadoes (Tornado Alley section) Lightning
October 16	Hurricane Energetics Impacts of Extreme Weather; Possible Trends in Severe Weather Ozone and the ozone hole Ultraviolet radiation and its effects WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Ozone and UV Exposure
October 21	Ultraviolet radiation and its effects (Continued) WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Ozone and UV Exposure Review 500 mb height maps Review 500 mb winds; Estimating Precipitation areas from 500 mb maps
October 23	Weather forecasting using 500 mb height maps The 500 mb weather pattern and weather terminology A crash course in cyclogenesis Numerical Weather Forecasting End of Exam 2 Material
Material for Exam #3
November 4	Weather vs Climate Introduction to Climate Change WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Climate, Climate Change, and Global Warming Solar Radiation and the Earth's Energy Budget I WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Radiation and Radiative Equilibrium Temperature
November 6	Infrared Radiation, Greenhouse Effect, and Earth's Energy Budget II Increasing Greenhouse Gases Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and the Carbon Cycle WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Carbon Cycle
November 13	Uncertainty in Climate Prediction and Climate Models Climate Models and their Prediction of Climate Change Potential Impacts of Global Warming
November 18	Potential Impacts of Global Warming (Continued) Reconstructing Past Climates The Climate of the Pleistocene WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Climate History
November 20	Is Life on Earth Fragile or Robust? The Climate of the Holocene WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Climate History Controversy: Global Average Temperature Reconstruction over the last 2000 years The Present Warming: 20th Centrury through today Global Warming Summary and Discussion
November 25	Global Warming Summary and Discussion(Continued) Factors that control climate Blue skies, red sunsets, white clouds, haze WORD Document Containing in-class text notes End of Exam 3 material